Yeah, I think this is probably right. My point isn’t that there is nothing troubling or potentially dangerous about Vasco’s reasoning-that’s clearly not true-but just that people should be careful in how they describe it, and not claim it rests on more controversial starting premises than it actually does. (I.e. in particular that it doesn’t have hedonism or consequentialism as a starting premise; obviously it does make some controversial assumptions.)
Yeah, I think this is probably right. My point isn’t that there is nothing troubling or potentially dangerous about Vasco’s reasoning-that’s clearly not true-but just that people should be careful in how they describe it, and not claim it rests on more controversial starting premises than it actually does. (I.e. in particular that it doesn’t have hedonism or consequentialism as a starting premise; obviously it does make some controversial assumptions.)