Yes, I have an intuition that development is good, just like I have an intuition that ice cream is good. That doesn’t mean that the price of the ice-cream should be ignored and assumed to be zero when deciding when to buy it, and nor should the costs of development be ignored and assumed to be zero.
Yes, but if at some point you find out, for example, that your model of morality leads to a conclusion that one should kill all humans, you’d probably conclude that your model is wrong rather than actually go through with it.
It’s an extreme example, but at its basis every model is somehow an approximation stemming from our internal moral intuition. Be it that life is better than death, or happiness better than pain, or satisfying desires better than frustration, or that following god’s commands is better than ignoring them, etc.
Is not every moral theory based on assumptions that X must be better than Y, around which some model is built?
Yes, I have an intuition that development is good, just like I have an intuition that ice cream is good. That doesn’t mean that the price of the ice-cream should be ignored and assumed to be zero when deciding when to buy it, and nor should the costs of development be ignored and assumed to be zero.
Yes, but if at some point you find out, for example, that your model of morality leads to a conclusion that one should kill all humans, you’d probably conclude that your model is wrong rather than actually go through with it.
It’s an extreme example, but at its basis every model is somehow an approximation stemming from our internal moral intuition. Be it that life is better than death, or happiness better than pain, or satisfying desires better than frustration, or that following god’s commands is better than ignoring them, etc.