But Wait! I Thought Everyone Rejected the Repugnant Conclusion?

Just a reminder that total happiness utilitarians are not a bogeyman; they actually exist in the wild. To wit, Torbjörn Tännsjö says:

The crucial thing is not how many people are living right now, but the sum total of happiness. Perhaps we should be fewer now to be able to go on for millions of years. Some people have a theory that we’re perhaps too many right now, and I don’t object to that. The idea is that we should be as many as possible at each point in time and go on for as long as possible. The rationale behind this is the idea that we should maximize the sum total of happiness.

That is all, you may now go about your business.