Thanks for the reply. Just one comment, because you said you didn’t want to engage more and I feel similar:
>>Also, I don’t see how the burden of proof on me to deny a claim that you haven’t justified? You’re the one that’s come along with a new claim and just said “in fact that seems largely fine to me”. Presumably I can just say “Well, in fact that seems largely not fine to me”. You’re the one suggesting the existing norms are overly restrictive in some way, so you’re the one that should justify it, but I don’t actually think you’ve done this. So again—what’s the case that it’s the role of CEA and EAG to facilitate new beautiful relationships? Do you apply this standard to other communities and conferences you attend?
I think the burden of proof is clearly on you because denying 2) seems to me like an apriori (to knowing the details of the discussed actions) extremely unlikely claim: take any other kind of action, how often can we really say that literally all actions of that kind are wrong? Not even with lying or stealing is that true. Denying a universal statement of that kind is, I think, a prior extremely likely (at least if the set of actions is large). I think this is clearest if you are sympathetic to some form of consequentialism. That’s why I think 2) doesn’t need much argument in its favor ,but your position needs very strong arguments to be plausible.
Thanks for the reply. Just one comment, because you said you didn’t want to engage more and I feel similar:
>>Also, I don’t see how the burden of proof on me to deny a claim that you haven’t justified? You’re the one that’s come along with a new claim and just said “in fact that seems largely fine to me”. Presumably I can just say “Well, in fact that seems largely not fine to me”. You’re the one suggesting the existing norms are overly restrictive in some way, so you’re the one that should justify it, but I don’t actually think you’ve done this. So again—what’s the case that it’s the role of CEA and EAG to facilitate new beautiful relationships? Do you apply this standard to other communities and conferences you attend?
I think the burden of proof is clearly on you because denying 2) seems to me like an apriori (to knowing the details of the discussed actions) extremely unlikely claim: take any other kind of action, how often can we really say that literally all actions of that kind are wrong? Not even with lying or stealing is that true. Denying a universal statement of that kind is, I think, a prior extremely likely (at least if the set of actions is large). I think this is clearest if you are sympathetic to some form of consequentialism. That’s why I think 2) doesn’t need much argument in its favor ,but your position needs very strong arguments to be plausible.