Some of your quotes are broken in your comment, you need a > for each paragraph (and two >s for double quotes etc.)
I know for most of your post you were arguing with standard definitions, but that made it all the more jarring when you switched!
I actually think most (maybe all?) moral theories can be baked into goodness/badness of sates of affairs. If you want incorporate a side-constraint you can just define any state of affairs in which you violate that constraint as being worse than all other states of affairs. I do agree this can be less natural, but the formulations are not incompatible.
In any case as I have given you plenty of other comment threads to think about I am happy to leave this one here—my point was just a call for clarity.
I certainly did not mean to cause confusion, and I apologize for wasting any of your time that you spent trying to make sense of things.
By “you switched”, do you mean that in my response to Objection 1, I gave the impression that only experience matters to me, such that when I mentioned in my response to Objection 2 that who suffers matters to me too, it seems like I’ve switched?
And thanks, I have fixed the broken quote. Btw, do you know how to italicize words?
Yes, “switched” was a bit strong, I meant that by default people will assume a standard usage, so if you only reveal later that actually you are using a non-standard definition people will be surprised. I guess despite your response to Objection 2 I was unsure in this case whether you were arguing in terms of (what are at least to me) conventional definitions or not, and I had assumed you were.
To italicize works puts *s on either side, like *this* (when you are replying to a comment there is a ‘show help’ button that explains some of these things.)
Some of your quotes are broken in your comment, you need a > for each paragraph (and two >s for double quotes etc.)
I know for most of your post you were arguing with standard definitions, but that made it all the more jarring when you switched!
I actually think most (maybe all?) moral theories can be baked into goodness/badness of sates of affairs. If you want incorporate a side-constraint you can just define any state of affairs in which you violate that constraint as being worse than all other states of affairs. I do agree this can be less natural, but the formulations are not incompatible.
In any case as I have given you plenty of other comment threads to think about I am happy to leave this one here—my point was just a call for clarity.
I certainly did not mean to cause confusion, and I apologize for wasting any of your time that you spent trying to make sense of things.
By “you switched”, do you mean that in my response to Objection 1, I gave the impression that only experience matters to me, such that when I mentioned in my response to Objection 2 that who suffers matters to me too, it seems like I’ve switched?
And thanks, I have fixed the broken quote. Btw, do you know how to italicize words?
Yes, “switched” was a bit strong, I meant that by default people will assume a standard usage, so if you only reveal later that actually you are using a non-standard definition people will be surprised. I guess despite your response to Objection 2 I was unsure in this case whether you were arguing in terms of (what are at least to me) conventional definitions or not, and I had assumed you were.
To italicize works puts *s on either side, like *this* (when you are replying to a comment there is a ‘show help’ button that explains some of these things.)
I see the problem. I will fix this. Thanks.