Thanks for this interesting summary! These are clearly really powerful arguments for biting the bullet and accepting fanaticism. But does this mean that Hayden Wilkinson would literally hand over their wallet to a pascal mugger, if someone attempted to Pascal mug them? Because Pascals mugger doesn’t have to be a thought experiment. It’s a script you could literally say to someone in real life, and I’m assuming that if I tried it on a philosopher advocating for fanaticism, then I wouldn’t actually get their wallet. Why is that? What’s the argument that lets you not follow through on that in practice?
Thanks for this interesting summary! These are clearly really powerful arguments for biting the bullet and accepting fanaticism. But does this mean that Hayden Wilkinson would literally hand over their wallet to a pascal mugger, if someone attempted to Pascal mug them? Because Pascals mugger doesn’t have to be a thought experiment. It’s a script you could literally say to someone in real life, and I’m assuming that if I tried it on a philosopher advocating for fanaticism, then I wouldn’t actually get their wallet. Why is that? What’s the argument that lets you not follow through on that in practice?