Okay, I agree that going “from perfect to flawed” isn’t the core of the intuition.
Moreover, I don’t think most people find the RP much less unacceptable if the initial population merely enjoys very high quality of life versus perfect satisfaction.
This seems correct to me too.
I mostly wanted to point out that I’m pretty sure that it’s a strawman that the repugnant conclusion primarily targets anti-aggregationist intuitions. I suspect that people would also find the conclusion strange if it involved smaller numbers. When a family decides how many kids they have and they estimate that the average quality of life per person in the family (esp. with a lot of weights on the parents themselves) will be highest if they have two children, most people would find it strange to go for five children if that did best in terms of total welfare.
Okay, I agree that going “from perfect to flawed” isn’t the core of the intuition.
This seems correct to me too.
I mostly wanted to point out that I’m pretty sure that it’s a strawman that the repugnant conclusion primarily targets anti-aggregationist intuitions. I suspect that people would also find the conclusion strange if it involved smaller numbers. When a family decides how many kids they have and they estimate that the average quality of life per person in the family (esp. with a lot of weights on the parents themselves) will be highest if they have two children, most people would find it strange to go for five children if that did best in terms of total welfare.