I am merely arguing that when there is a conflict between a consequentialist (or other formal) argument and a folk-ethical intuition, it is strong evidence that there is something seriously wrong with the former, even if it’s entirely non-obvious what it might be, and it’s fallacious to automatically discard the latter as biased
I agree. And I like the rest of your response about tacitly shared focal points.
Part of what you may be running up against on LW is people here
(a) Having low intuitive sense for what these focal points are
(b) The existing norms being designed to be tolerable for ‘most people’ and LWers falling outside of ‘most people,’ and correspondingly finding existing norms intolerable with higher than usual frequency.
I know that each of (a) and (b) sometimes apply to me personally
Your future remarks on this subject may be more lucid if you bring the content of your above comment to the fore at the outset..
Thanks for your response!
I agree. And I like the rest of your response about tacitly shared focal points.
Part of what you may be running up against on LW is people here (a) Having low intuitive sense for what these focal points are (b) The existing norms being designed to be tolerable for ‘most people’ and LWers falling outside of ‘most people,’ and correspondingly finding existing norms intolerable with higher than usual frequency.
I know that each of (a) and (b) sometimes apply to me personally
Your future remarks on this subject may be more lucid if you bring the content of your above comment to the fore at the outset..