Utilitarianism aggregates welfare across time-slices within a life just as it does across persons, and if intra-personal aggregation is permissible, the asymmetry the objection relies on requires a robust self/other distinction.

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Aggregates/Aggregation(how utilitarianism combines welfare): The process of adding up or combining multiple things together to get a total—like adding up everyone's happiness scores to see what's best overall.
Intra-personal(as used in discussing contradictions): Something happening within a single person's mind or experience, rather than between different people.
Self/other distinction(as the foundational principle that limits government power): The basic boundary between yourself and other people—the idea that you are a separate person from everyone else, which is why the government needs a reason to control your behavior but also can't control others without justification.
Time-slices(how we divide up a single person's life for evaluation): Specific moments or periods in a person's life treated as separate units—like thinking of your life as a series of snapshots rather than one continuous thing.

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