preference total utilitarianism gives credit for satisfying more preferences—and if creating more people is a way of doing this, then it’s in favour
Shouldn’t we then just create people with simpler and easier to satisfy preferences so that there’s more preference-satisfying in the world?
Indeed, that’s a very counterintuitive conclusion. It’s the reason why most preference-utilitarians I know hold a prior-existence view.
Shouldn’t we then just create people with simpler and easier to satisfy preferences so that there’s more preference-satisfying in the world?
Indeed, that’s a very counterintuitive conclusion. It’s the reason why most preference-utilitarians I know hold a prior-existence view.