I don’t understand why the underlying thing I want is “variety of happy experience” (only)? How does “variety of happy experience” imply killing a person and replacing em by a different person is bad? How does it solve the repugnant conclusion? How does it explain the asymmetry between killing and not-creating? If your answer is “it shouldn’t explain these things because they are wrong” then, sorry, I don’t think that’s what I really want. The utility function is not up for grabs.
I don’t understand why the underlying thing I want is “variety of happy experience” (only)? How does “variety of happy experience” imply killing a person and replacing em by a different person is bad? How does it solve the repugnant conclusion? How does it explain the asymmetry between killing and not-creating? If your answer is “it shouldn’t explain these things because they are wrong” then, sorry, I don’t think that’s what I really want. The utility function is not up for grabs.