I can’t really get behind a sort of “all tastebuds are equally valid”, I think it’s fine to prioritize some tastebuds over others, because I think some are more upstream than others. If you’re not relentlessly assaulted by diseases you can better navigate and iteratively figure out where on the liberty/oppression axis you’re most adapted to, or for any other axis, so I think a sort of “solve health/wealth to give people the slack to figure out the other sources of moral value for themselves in virtuous cycles” is sufficiently compelling. That’s why welfarism is good.
Is health on the care/harm axis?
I can’t really get behind a sort of “all tastebuds are equally valid”, I think it’s fine to prioritize some tastebuds over others, because I think some are more upstream than others. If you’re not relentlessly assaulted by diseases you can better navigate and iteratively figure out where on the liberty/oppression axis you’re most adapted to, or for any other axis, so I think a sort of “solve health/wealth to give people the slack to figure out the other sources of moral value for themselves in virtuous cycles” is sufficiently compelling. That’s why welfarism is good.