I also got the sense that some kind of averaging consideration (or inverse prioritarianism, where the flourishing of the ~90th percentile along some dimension) was the essential thing for vitalists. Helping the weakest be stronger doesn’t count when your concern is the peak strength of the strongest.
It’s very much an aesthetically grounded, rather than experientially- or scale-grounded ethics.
I also got the sense that some kind of averaging consideration (or inverse prioritarianism, where the flourishing of the ~90th percentile along some dimension) was the essential thing for vitalists. Helping the weakest be stronger doesn’t count when your concern is the peak strength of the strongest.
It’s very much an aesthetically grounded, rather than experientially- or scale-grounded ethics.