Changing one’s values does not more effectively promote the values one has initially, so it seems one should be averse to it. I think the expanding circle case is more complicated—the advocates of a wider circle are trying to convince the others that those others are mistaken about their own existing values, and that by consistency they must care about some entities they think they don’t care about. This is why the phenomenon looks like an expanding circle—points just outside a circle look a lot like points just inside it, so consistency pushes the circle outwards (this doesn’t explain why the circle expands rather than contracting).
That makes more sense. I haven’t read much philosophy, or engaged with that sort of thinking very deeply, so I often get confused about what I or others (are supposed to) mean by the word ‘value’. I meant that people would be more effective if they altered their actions to be more in line with their values after they were updated for consistency. If someone says “I don’t value X” one day, and “I now value X” the next day, I myself semantically think of that as a ‘change of values’ rather than ‘an update of values toward greater behavioral consistency’. The latter definition seems to be the more common one around these parts, and also more precise, so I’ll just go with that one from now on.
That makes more sense. I haven’t read much philosophy, or engaged with that sort of thinking very deeply, so I often get confused about what I or others (are supposed to) mean by the word ‘value’. I meant that people would be more effective if they altered their actions to be more in line with their values after they were updated for consistency. If someone says “I don’t value X” one day, and “I now value X” the next day, I myself semantically think of that as a ‘change of values’ rather than ‘an update of values toward greater behavioral consistency’. The latter definition seems to be the more common one around these parts, and also more precise, so I’ll just go with that one from now on.
Changing one’s values does not more effectively promote the values one has initially, so it seems one should be averse to it. I think the expanding circle case is more complicated—the advocates of a wider circle are trying to convince the others that those others are mistaken about their own existing values, and that by consistency they must care about some entities they think they don’t care about. This is why the phenomenon looks like an expanding circle—points just outside a circle look a lot like points just inside it, so consistency pushes the circle outwards (this doesn’t explain why the circle expands rather than contracting).
Unless you’re a moral realist, and want to have the correct values.
That makes more sense. I haven’t read much philosophy, or engaged with that sort of thinking very deeply, so I often get confused about what I or others (are supposed to) mean by the word ‘value’. I meant that people would be more effective if they altered their actions to be more in line with their values after they were updated for consistency. If someone says “I don’t value X” one day, and “I now value X” the next day, I myself semantically think of that as a ‘change of values’ rather than ‘an update of values toward greater behavioral consistency’. The latter definition seems to be the more common one around these parts, and also more precise, so I’ll just go with that one from now on.
That makes more sense. I haven’t read much philosophy, or engaged with that sort of thinking very deeply, so I often get confused about what I or others (are supposed to) mean by the word ‘value’. I meant that people would be more effective if they altered their actions to be more in line with their values after they were updated for consistency. If someone says “I don’t value X” one day, and “I now value X” the next day, I myself semantically think of that as a ‘change of values’ rather than ‘an update of values toward greater behavioral consistency’. The latter definition seems to be the more common one around these parts, and also more precise, so I’ll just go with that one from now on.