This argument seems only convincing if you don’t have those destructive values. One man’s destructive values is another’s low-hanging fruit, and those who see low hanging fruit everywhere won’t give up on the fruit just because others may pick it.
Since bad people won’t heed your warning it doesn’t seem in good people’s interests to heed it either.
An analogy is one can make the same argument wrt rationality itself. Its dual use! Someone with bad values can use rationality to do a lot of harm! Does that mean good people shouldn’t use rationality? No!
Since bad people won’t heed your warning it doesn’t seem in good people’s interests to heed it either.
I’m not trying to “warn bad people”. I think we have existing (even if imperfect) solutions to the problem of destructive values and biased beliefs, which “heroic responsibility” actively damages, so we should stop spreading that idea or even argue against it. See my reply to Ryan, which is also relevant here.
This argument seems only convincing if you don’t have those destructive values. One man’s destructive values is another’s low-hanging fruit, and those who see low hanging fruit everywhere won’t give up on the fruit just because others may pick it.
Since bad people won’t heed your warning it doesn’t seem in good people’s interests to heed it either.
An analogy is one can make the same argument wrt rationality itself. Its dual use! Someone with bad values can use rationality to do a lot of harm! Does that mean good people shouldn’t use rationality? No!
I’m not trying to “warn bad people”. I think we have existing (even if imperfect) solutions to the problem of destructive values and biased beliefs, which “heroic responsibility” actively damages, so we should stop spreading that idea or even argue against it. See my reply to Ryan, which is also relevant here.