I might go back and forth on whether “the good” exists, as my subjective order over each set of outcomes (or set of outcome distributions). This example seems pretty compelling against it.
However, I’m first concerned with “good/bad/better/worse to someone” or “good/bad/better/worse from a particular perspective”. Then, ethics is about doing better by and managing tradeoffs between these perspectives, including as they change (e.g. with additional perspectives created through additional moral patients). This is what my sequence is about. Whether “the good” exists doesn’t seem very important.
I might go back and forth on whether “the good” exists, as my subjective order over each set of outcomes (or set of outcome distributions). This example seems pretty compelling against it.
However, I’m first concerned with “good/bad/better/worse to someone” or “good/bad/better/worse from a particular perspective”. Then, ethics is about doing better by and managing tradeoffs between these perspectives, including as they change (e.g. with additional perspectives created through additional moral patients). This is what my sequence is about. Whether “the good” exists doesn’t seem very important.