One reason might be that this framework seems to bake totalist utilitarianism into longtermism (by considering expansion/contraction and average willbeing incrase/decrease) as the two types of longtermist progress/regress, whereas longtermism is compatible with many ethical theories?
It’s phrased in broadly utilitarian terms (though ‘wellbeing’ is a broad enough concept potentially encompass concerns that go well beyond normal utilitarian axiologies), but you could easily rephrase using the same structure to encompass any set of concerns that would be consistent with longtermism, which is still basically consequentialist.
I think the only thing you’d need to change to have the generality of longtermism is to call ‘average wellbeing increase/decrease’ something more general like ‘average value increase/decrease’ - which I would have liked to do but I couldn’t think of phrase succinct enough to fit on the diagram that didn’t sound confusingly like it meant ‘increase/decrease to average person’s values’.
One reason might be that this framework seems to bake totalist utilitarianism into longtermism (by considering expansion/contraction and average willbeing incrase/decrease) as the two types of longtermist progress/regress, whereas longtermism is compatible with many ethical theories?
It’s phrased in broadly utilitarian terms (though ‘wellbeing’ is a broad enough concept potentially encompass concerns that go well beyond normal utilitarian axiologies), but you could easily rephrase using the same structure to encompass any set of concerns that would be consistent with longtermism, which is still basically consequentialist.
I think the only thing you’d need to change to have the generality of longtermism is to call ‘average wellbeing increase/decrease’ something more general like ‘average value increase/decrease’ - which I would have liked to do but I couldn’t think of phrase succinct enough to fit on the diagram that didn’t sound confusingly like it meant ‘increase/decrease to average person’s values’.