Point taken, but for the average person, the time period of growing up isn’t just a joyless period where they do nothing but train and invest in the future. Most people remember their childhoods as a period of joy and their college years as some of the best of their lives. Growing and learning isn’t just preparation for the future, people find large portions of it to be fun. So the “existing” person would be deprived of all that, whereas the new person would not be.
That can be said about any period in life. It’s just a matter of perspective and circumstances. The best years are never the same for different people.
Most people remember their childhoods as a period of joy and their college years as some of the best of their lives.
This seems more anecdotal, and people becoming jaded as they grow older is a similar assertion in nature
That can be said about any period in life. It’s just a matter of perspective and circumstances. The best years are never the same for different people.
That’s true, but I think that for the overwhelming majority of people, their childhoods and young adulthoods were at the very least good years, even if they’re not always the best. They are years that contain significantly more good than bad for most people. So if you create a new adult who never had a childhood, and whose lifespan is proportionately shorter, they will have a lower total amount of wellbeing over their lifetime than someone who had a full-length life that included a childhood.
Point taken, but for the average person, the time period of growing up isn’t just a joyless period where they do nothing but train and invest in the future. Most people remember their childhoods as a period of joy and their college years as some of the best of their lives. Growing and learning isn’t just preparation for the future, people find large portions of it to be fun. So the “existing” person would be deprived of all that, whereas the new person would not be.
That can be said about any period in life. It’s just a matter of perspective and circumstances. The best years are never the same for different people.
This seems more anecdotal, and people becoming jaded as they grow older is a similar assertion in nature
That’s true, but I think that for the overwhelming majority of people, their childhoods and young adulthoods were at the very least good years, even if they’re not always the best. They are years that contain significantly more good than bad for most people. So if you create a new adult who never had a childhood, and whose lifespan is proportionately shorter, they will have a lower total amount of wellbeing over their lifetime than someone who had a full-length life that included a childhood.