If you want to really get down to it, I am not a utility maximizer. Insomuch as I try to maximize any sort of utility, I try to bring happiness. I may feel bad thinking about things that have a net increase of happiness, but I still try to bring them about.
If imagining a possible future makes me feel bad, this is a fact about me, and not a fact about the possible future. I wish to get rid of the bad feeling. My instinct is to do it by averting that future, but I know better. I just make sure it’s not a future in which I feel bad about it.
If you want to really get down to it, I am not a utility maximizer. Insomuch as I try to maximize any sort of utility, I try to bring happiness. I may feel bad thinking about things that have a net increase of happiness, but I still try to bring them about.
If imagining a possible future makes me feel bad, this is a fact about me, and not a fact about the possible future. I wish to get rid of the bad feeling. My instinct is to do it by averting that future, but I know better. I just make sure it’s not a future in which I feel bad about it.