I think this is an important point. What measures the subjective value of an event or state of affairs? If we assume that it is something like happiness, or time of being alive, we run into counterexamples and paradoxes like the repugnant conclusion.
A more plausible measure of subjective value seems to be based on what we want: Death is bad for someone precisely to the degree of how strongly they don’t want to die. Furthermore, death is bad for them because they don’t want to die. Death is not bad because death would make them live shorter, or because it would deprive them of future happiness. (Those may be influencing factors, but only and exactly to the degree they want to avoid to living shorter or being deprived of future happiness.)
I think this is an important point. What measures the subjective value of an event or state of affairs? If we assume that it is something like happiness, or time of being alive, we run into counterexamples and paradoxes like the repugnant conclusion.
A more plausible measure of subjective value seems to be based on what we want: Death is bad for someone precisely to the degree of how strongly they don’t want to die. Furthermore, death is bad for them because they don’t want to die. Death is not bad because death would make them live shorter, or because it would deprive them of future happiness. (Those may be influencing factors, but only and exactly to the degree they want to avoid to living shorter or being deprived of future happiness.)