Oops, I just realized that in this last comment (the sibling to this one) I blurred two compartments of thought. I don’t mind that I have different compartments, but I consider it a failure if I cannot remain in one throughout a thread. I guess what happened is that you convinced me there is reason to be cynical about human empathy, which became cynicism about human value, which inevitably leads to a set of grooves about value drift and my dissatisfaction with the lack of a framework of objective value (“FOOV”). So if you had the impression I switched gears regarding my initial position, you are correct.
By the way, I don’t consider cynicism or optimism about human moral progress to be a factual matter, but two perspectives of the same scene. Over the weekend I attended a meeting that had me swayed in the optimism direction.
Oops, I just realized that in this last comment (the sibling to this one) I blurred two compartments of thought. I don’t mind that I have different compartments, but I consider it a failure if I cannot remain in one throughout a thread. I guess what happened is that you convinced me there is reason to be cynical about human empathy, which became cynicism about human value, which inevitably leads to a set of grooves about value drift and my dissatisfaction with the lack of a framework of objective value (“FOOV”). So if you had the impression I switched gears regarding my initial position, you are correct.
By the way, I don’t consider cynicism or optimism about human moral progress to be a factual matter, but two perspectives of the same scene. Over the weekend I attended a meeting that had me swayed in the optimism direction.