I was just trying to suggest an objective basis for this theory. I think all this concern for reincarnation is seriously sidetracking your project from the get-go. Concern for the well being of insects and other non-human species is an example of the important role that symbolism has in moral systems. It serves the same function as the proverbial canary in a coal mine.
I agree the reincarnation aspect of the discussion seems to be bringing out people's baggage concerning reincarnation rather than serving as a tool by which to analyse the moral question in terms of game theory. In a single iteration of a game, with pay off matrices like those I gave earlier, and where you don't know whether you play the Human or Mosquito or even the probability of which one you'll play, it seems pretty clear you don't want that the human squishes. The don't notice column I suggested later made the human squishes action less bad, but still not good. At the time of the first post, I thought iterating a modified game suggested some way that it might be okay, so put reincarnation in the title. Later, in the thread, I came up with a weak, still unsatisfying, example of this.
At the time, I didn't think that many humans and many mosquitos playing the game in parallel, which avoids the mention of reincarnation, was exactly the same as iterating the game, but maybe there is some way to phrase it in terms of this?
