Objections to the Repugnant Conclusion: David Parfit

For the seemingly logical step in "disgusting conclusion", David Parfit said that the world of a person who lived a very good life is more than the world of a long-living person " Conclusion "has been reached. I am bad and I live. I will outline his argument and conclusion and then explain how to escape from this intuitionistic idea by rethinking the way we measure and compare people's happiness. I believe that everyone should receive a certain amount of benefit beyond the life not worth living in life and believe that such benefits can not be compensated by increasing the number of people.

According to Derek Parfit, the use of perfect happiness is a victim of aggressive conclusion, so many people with very low but not negative utility values ​​are superior to extremely few people who are comfortable and live It can be regarded as a target. . In other words, according to this theory it is morally good to train more people in the world as total happiness increases. On the other hand, measuring the utility of the population based on the average utility of the population avoids Parfit 's unpleasant conclusion, but causes other problems. For example, taking a moderately happy person to a very happy world would be considered an immoral act; furthermore, the theory suggests that eliminating all sub-average happiness is moral doing. A good thing, it increases the average happiness.

In classical utilitarian words, countless Muzac and potato lives have over 10 billion high quality lives. Parfit is trying to avoid unpleasant conclusions using most of the fourth part. I think that Cowen solved this problem with his ideal participant structure, but in any case there is little life that I can not imagine as realistic monsters. Let's start with some assumptions. First, let us suppose that an unnecessary fetus grows to a person with life value. If it was born to a 14 - year - old mother, this life will be slightly worse if it is born to an economically honest old mother. Whether or not the fetus has been aborted, the mother sends her life. In at least some cases, if she gave birth to children, this life will be worse further. Also assume that no one is seriously injured by the existence of these people.