@MemberOfSpecies Agreed, but let me see if I can steelman your objection further… Separate measure of goodness from threshold of adequacy.
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@MemberOfSpecies Maybe… maybe that points at the concept of a lower bound of ethical adequacy, with the zone of freedom above.
@Meaningness When people ask "how ethical should I be", maybe they're modeling themselves as acting on base motives by default,
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@Meaningness but being pulled in other directions like altruism or rule-following by moral reflection, -
@Meaningness and asking how strongly they should be so pulled before it causes them to overshoot the ethical-philosophically best action. -
@Meaningness E.g. "How ethical [pulled toward altruistic] should [according to utilitarianism] I [who am inclined to be egoistic] be?" - 4 more replies
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