You say you’re happy to hear counter-arguments, but it sounds very much like you’ve made up your mind.
FWIW I think there’s no inherent tension here and it’s a healthy attitude. One needs to make up one’s mind, and saying (and acting) like you’re happy to hear counter-arguments after that is very good.
Edited to add: I’m not making or implying any comments on the wider discussion, just this narrow point.
I’d agree the first three remarks are on the strong side of reasonable, but the last two seem epistemically unhygienic. I am extremely confident eg that global total scalar valence utilitarianism is a better answer to the questions moral philosophy seeks to answer than any alternative that’s been proposed, but I would never use a phrase like ‘not up for debate’, which sounds childish to me.
FWIW I think there’s no inherent tension here and it’s a healthy attitude. One needs to make up one’s mind, and saying (and acting) like you’re happy to hear counter-arguments after that is very good.
Edited to add: I’m not making or implying any comments on the wider discussion, just this narrow point.
I’d agree the first three remarks are on the strong side of reasonable, but the last two seem epistemically unhygienic. I am extremely confident eg that global total scalar valence utilitarianism is a better answer to the questions moral philosophy seeks to answer than any alternative that’s been proposed, but I would never use a phrase like ‘not up for debate’, which sounds childish to me.