I think this is a great and really sensible way to think about things. It’s really natural, and the physics analogy provides some intuition behind why that is. A question: have you thought about how this way of thinking is in some sense “baked into” certain moral frameworks? I’m thinking specifically here of rule utilitarianism: rules can apply at different scales. It seems to be that at the personal level rule utilitarianism is basically instantiated as virtue ethics.
I think this is a great and really sensible way to think about things. It’s really natural, and the physics analogy provides some intuition behind why that is. A question: have you thought about how this way of thinking is in some sense “baked into” certain moral frameworks? I’m thinking specifically here of rule utilitarianism: rules can apply at different scales. It seems to be that at the personal level rule utilitarianism is basically instantiated as virtue ethics.