At the end of the day, is the world better off for having this video in it and all the good done in its production? Yes, I think it’s a net positive.
Perhaps this is obvious, but we can simultaneously believe that having this video is better than not having it while also disliking some aspects of it and wishing that we could have had something better still. Joseph is quite clear that his feelings are mixed, not unambiguously negative.
Neither Joseph nor I were taking a black-or-white view of things. My “is the world better” thought experiment is merely a first-order approximation of a complex issue. I apologize if that was not clear.
Perhaps this is obvious, but we can simultaneously believe that having this video is better than not having it while also disliking some aspects of it and wishing that we could have had something better still. Joseph is quite clear that his feelings are mixed, not unambiguously negative.
Neither Joseph nor I were taking a black-or-white view of things. My “is the world better” thought experiment is merely a first-order approximation of a complex issue. I apologize if that was not clear.