Putting the question of assisted suicide aside, I agree with what seems to be the core of this answer: The “value calculus” often used by utilitarians is a nice mathematical framework, but ultimately not a real thing (not saying that suffering isn’t a real thing or that one can’t gain useful knowledge from such calculations).
E.g. I would always trade an infinite amount of suffering for +epsilon control of the future and my current and future values don’t necessarily align. I don’t see how a strong form of utilitarianism can contend with such things.
Putting the question of assisted suicide aside, I agree with what seems to be the core of this answer: The “value calculus” often used by utilitarians is a nice mathematical framework, but ultimately not a real thing (not saying that suffering isn’t a real thing or that one can’t gain useful knowledge from such calculations).
E.g. I would always trade an infinite amount of suffering for +epsilon control of the future and my current and future values don’t necessarily align. I don’t see how a strong form of utilitarianism can contend with such things.