Hey, a rough point on a doubt I have. Not sure if it’s useful/novel.
Going through the mental processes of a utilitarian (roughly defined) will correlate with others making more utilitarian decisions as well (especially when they’re similar in relevant personality traits and their past exposure to philosophical ideas).
For example, if you act less scope-insensitive, ommission-bias-y, or ingroup-y, others will tend to do so as well. This includes edge cases – e.g. people who otherwise would have made decisions that roughly fall in the deontologist or virtue ethics bucket.
Therefore, for every moment you end up shutting off utilitarian-ish mental processes in favour of ones where you think you’re doing moral trade (including hidden motivations like rationalising acting from social proof or discomfort in diverging from your peers), your multi-universal compatriots will do likewise (especially in similar contexts).
(In case it looks like I’m justifying being a staunch utilitarian here, I have a more nuanced anti-realism view mixed in with lots of uncertainty on what makes sense.)
Hey, a rough point on a doubt I have. Not sure if it’s useful/novel.
Going through the mental processes of a utilitarian (roughly defined) will correlate with others making more utilitarian decisions as well (especially when they’re similar in relevant personality traits and their past exposure to philosophical ideas).
For example, if you act less scope-insensitive, ommission-bias-y, or ingroup-y, others will tend to do so as well. This includes edge cases – e.g. people who otherwise would have made decisions that roughly fall in the deontologist or virtue ethics bucket.
Therefore, for every moment you end up shutting off utilitarian-ish mental processes in favour of ones where you think you’re doing moral trade (including hidden motivations like rationalising acting from social proof or discomfort in diverging from your peers), your multi-universal compatriots will do likewise (especially in similar contexts).
(In case it looks like I’m justifying being a staunch utilitarian here, I have a more nuanced anti-realism view mixed in with lots of uncertainty on what makes sense.)