Robin, it looks to me like we diverged at an earlier point in the argument than that. As far as I can tell, you’re still working in something like a mode of moral realism/externalism (you asked whether the goodness of human values was “luck”). If this is the case, then the basic rules of argument I adopted will sound to you like mere appeals to intuition. I’m not sure what I could do about this—except, maybe, trying to rewrite and condense and simplify my writing on metaethics. It is not clear to me what other mode of argument you thought I could have adopted. So far as I know, trying to get people to see for themselves what their implicit rightness-function returns on various scenarios, is all there is and all there can possibly be.
Robin, it looks to me like we diverged at an earlier point in the argument than that. As far as I can tell, you’re still working in something like a mode of moral realism/externalism (you asked whether the goodness of human values was “luck”). If this is the case, then the basic rules of argument I adopted will sound to you like mere appeals to intuition. I’m not sure what I could do about this—except, maybe, trying to rewrite and condense and simplify my writing on metaethics. It is not clear to me what other mode of argument you thought I could have adopted. So far as I know, trying to get people to see for themselves what their implicit rightness-function returns on various scenarios, is all there is and all there can possibly be.