Do you think this is highly implausible even if you account for:
the opportunities to reduce other people’s extreme suffering that a person committing suicide would forego,
the extreme suffering of one’s loved ones this would probably increase,
plausible views of personal identity on which risking the extreme suffering of one’s future self is ethically similar to, if not the same as, risking it for someone else,
relatedly, views of probability where the small measure of worlds with a being experiencing extreme suffering are as “real” as the large measure without, and
the fact that even non-negative utilitarian views will probably consider some forms of suffering so bad, that small risks of them would outweigh any upsides that a typical human experiences, for oneself (ignoring effects on other people)?
These seem like good objections to me, but overall I still find it pretty implausible. A hermit who leads a happy life alone on an island (and has read lots of books about personal identity and otherwise acquired a lot of wisdom) probably wouldn’t want to commit suicide unless the amount of expected suffering in their future was pretty significant.
(I didn’t understand, or disagree with, the fourth point.)
Do you think this is highly implausible even if you account for:
the opportunities to reduce other people’s extreme suffering that a person committing suicide would forego,
the extreme suffering of one’s loved ones this would probably increase,
plausible views of personal identity on which risking the extreme suffering of one’s future self is ethically similar to, if not the same as, risking it for someone else,
relatedly, views of probability where the small measure of worlds with a being experiencing extreme suffering are as “real” as the large measure without, and
the fact that even non-negative utilitarian views will probably consider some forms of suffering so bad, that small risks of them would outweigh any upsides that a typical human experiences, for oneself (ignoring effects on other people)?
These seem like good objections to me, but overall I still find it pretty implausible. A hermit who leads a happy life alone on an island (and has read lots of books about personal identity and otherwise acquired a lot of wisdom) probably wouldn’t want to commit suicide unless the amount of expected suffering in their future was pretty significant.
(I didn’t understand, or disagree with, the fourth point.)