One small thing: you define consequentialism as choosing the best outcome. I think it makes a big difference, at least to our intuitions, if we instead say something like:
Okay. The moral law is that you should take actions that make the world better. Or, put more formally, when asked to select between possible actions A and B, the more moral choice is the one that leads to the better state of the world by whatever standards you judge states of the world by.
In other words, it’s not all about the one point at the pinnacle of all the choices you could make—it’s about the whole scale. This helps people get over the burdensomeness/ “I’m not going to give all my money to SIAI/GWWC, so I might as well give up” thing.
One small thing: you define consequentialism as choosing the best outcome. I think it makes a big difference, at least to our intuitions, if we instead say something like:
In other words, it’s not all about the one point at the pinnacle of all the choices you could make—it’s about the whole scale. This helps people get over the burdensomeness/ “I’m not going to give all my money to SIAI/GWWC, so I might as well give up” thing.