Correct me if I’m wrong in my interpretation here, but it seems like you are modelling impact on a unidimensional scale, as though there is always an objective answer that we know with certainty when asked ’is X or Y more impactful
I think this is unhelpfully conflating at least three pretty different concepts.
Whether impact can be collapsed to a single dimension when doing moral calculus.
Whether morality is objective
Whether we have the predictive prowess to know with certainty ahead of time which actions are more impactful
Yeah maybe. Sorry if you found it unhelpful, I could have been clearer. I find your decomposition interesting. I was most strongly gesturing at the third.
I guess my personal read here is that I don’t think Thomas implied that we had perfect predictive prowess, nor did his argument rely upon this assumption.
Yeah I just couldn’t understand his comment until I realised that he’d misunderstood the OP as saying it should be a big movement rather than it should be a movement with diverse views that doesn’t deter great people for having different views. So I was looking for an explanation and that’s what my brain came up with.
I think this is unhelpfully conflating at least three pretty different concepts.
Whether impact can be collapsed to a single dimension when doing moral calculus.
Whether morality is objective
Whether we have the predictive prowess to know with certainty ahead of time which actions are more impactful
Yeah maybe. Sorry if you found it unhelpful, I could have been clearer. I find your decomposition interesting. I was most strongly gesturing at the third.
I guess my personal read here is that I don’t think Thomas implied that we had perfect predictive prowess, nor did his argument rely upon this assumption.
Yeah I just couldn’t understand his comment until I realised that he’d misunderstood the OP as saying it should be a big movement rather than it should be a movement with diverse views that doesn’t deter great people for having different views. So I was looking for an explanation and that’s what my brain came up with.
Thank you, that makes sense!