SaidAchmiz comments on Humans are utility monsters - Less Wrong
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Only if your preferences are transitive.
If you have any sort of coherent utility system at all, they will be.
A better point is that "no monster" just means you're shunting the problem to poor Alternate You in another many-worlds branch, whereas killing a happy monster means actually decreasing the number of universes with the monster in it by one.