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It's just a question of if you value other people existing or not. If you don't, focus on per-capita happiness, if you do then you focus on meeting a minimum th
by wilg 3y ago
It's just a question of if you value other people existing or not. If you don't, focus on per-capita happiness, if you do then you focus on meeting a minimum threshold of happiness for everyone.
I don't see how you couldn't value other people existing – I think they have just as much of a right to experience the universe as I do.
- mvdtnz 3y agoThere's a vast chasm between "other people deserve to exist" and "we should 100x our population in order to increase the marginal happiness pool".
- wilg 3y agoAlternately, there isn't.
- mhb 3y agoHas that belief led you to a lifestyle in which you are just barely happier than miserable so that you can lift as many others as you can out of misery?
- wilg 3y agoNo, but doing so would be consistent with my beliefs and I think it would be considered admirable to most people.