Fracture-ethics
Agents are made of subagents. People are not only the result of several different systems in the brain cooperating, they represent a cooperation of states across time. Without these methods of cooperation there’s not only no identity but no goal-oriented behavior, no action, and no ought. Barring factors like moral luck or amnesia, ethical coherence depends on the ability for the person I am now to interact meaningfully with the person I was two minutes ago and the person I will be a year from now.
If we consider an individual as a temporal nation of people, one after another, I think our views on ethics change. From this vantage utility is basically Epicurean - how good something is matters as much as how thinly or thickly it distributes across states, and whether it creates harms down the line. That is, utility maximizers don’t maximize the peak of the curve but the total area underneath.
On top of this, suffering is enpersoned - a state arising from prior states and an environment which would prefer not to exist. Avoiding negative utility is the same as minimizing the number of your descendants who would prefer not to manifest in reality. And some would seem to - the moments when you wish that you were somebody else, or somewhere else or doing something else. I feel like Benatar’s anti-natalism has more application here than its original arena.