What about cases involving abortion or death generally (before or after an individual becomes conscious), or genetic selection (two options with the same selected individual, but better or worse off for reasons unrelated to identity, like saving for education, or the mother’s diet)?
Also, this seems to be a response like “this isn’t a problem in practice”, but whether or not it’s a problem in practice, being a problem in theory is still a reason against (if we actually acknowledge it as a problem). Still, you can sacrifice the independence of irrelevant alternatives instead of transitivity and make your decisions choice-set-dependent.
Re your cases, those about abortion and death you might want to treat differently from those about creating lives. But then you might not. The cases like saving for education I’ve already discussed.
I might be inclined to say something stronger, such as the 3-choice sets are not metaphysically possible, potentially with a caveat like ‘at least from the perspective of the choosing agent’. I think the same thing about accusation person-affecting views and intransivity.
What about cases involving abortion or death generally (before or after an individual becomes conscious), or genetic selection (two options with the same selected individual, but better or worse off for reasons unrelated to identity, like saving for education, or the mother’s diet)?
Also, this seems to be a response like “this isn’t a problem in practice”, but whether or not it’s a problem in practice, being a problem in theory is still a reason against (if we actually acknowledge it as a problem). Still, you can sacrifice the independence of irrelevant alternatives instead of transitivity and make your decisions choice-set-dependent.
Re your cases, those about abortion and death you might want to treat differently from those about creating lives. But then you might not. The cases like saving for education I’ve already discussed.
I might be inclined to say something stronger, such as the 3-choice sets are not metaphysically possible, potentially with a caveat like ‘at least from the perspective of the choosing agent’. I think the same thing about accusation person-affecting views and intransivity.