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He's set his axioms in a way that it makes his argument infallible, with the classic "My perspective is what matters in the end of the day". The original post mentions personal pleasure as net positive and loss of life as a neutral. However the second part is strictly untrue. It's been looked at only at the dead person's PoV, if they're dead, they cant experience anything, so they didn't actually miss out on something. But for others, there could have been a lot of value lost. That person might create resources, and doesn't necessarily take up resources (although most looksmax members are just the latter). They could have been a person that actually adds value to the complex operation of society, and therefore also indirectly to OP's life. It's been looked at very one dimensionally (how I feel after it vs how the victim feels after it), which is very dangerous for otherwise actually good philosophical topics like this. There's obviously a reason why law gives you an ethical advantage to murder someone (i.e self-defense), and that's because the other person has proven in the specific instance to be a bigger detriment to society's operation than you have. Murder is wrong because the variables that come to it are insanely many, and there probably never will be a way to strictly define it and make it rigorously enforced.this idea that just because it is an opinion doesn't make it valid is also wrong. your opinion is neither beneficial, nor the commonly agreed upon system. even calling the lack of continued experience is a neutral is stupid.
"good" to you should mean creating a system that allows you to be happy without making other people unhappy. Because as much as you might say that yeah "i would like to kill someone", you wouldn't want someone to kill you. if you can understand that you dont want to die then you should also understand that killing is wrong.
And ofc, this all also comes under my favorite concept that objectivity doesn't exist as a concept