I agree that it is great to do something to people for which they will be thankful later. But newly created people seem just as good for this and if you care a lot about preferences you could create them in a way that they will be very thankful and the pure creation is fulfilling for them. Still don’t see the value of resurrection vs new people. I think my main problem with preference utilitarianism is that you can’t say whether it’s good or bad to create preferences since both has unintuitive conseqences.
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I agree that it is great to do something to people for which they will be thankful later. But newly created people seem just as good for this and if you care a lot about preferences you could create them in a way that they will be very thankful and the pure creation is fulfilling for them. Still don’t see the value of resurrection vs new people. I think my main problem with preference utilitarianism is that you can’t say whether it’s good or bad to create preferences since both has unintuitive conseqences.