philosophy: while the claims “good things are good” and “bad things are bad” at first appear to be compatible with each other, actually we can construct a weird hypothetical involving exact clones that demonstrates that they are fundamentally inconsistent with each other
law: could there be ambiguity in “don’t do things that are bad as determined by a reasonable person, unless the thing is actually good?” well, unfortunately, there is no way to know until it actually happens
I think I need to hear more context (and likely more words in the sentences) to understand what inconsistency you’re talking about. “good things are good” COULD be just a tautology, with the assumption that “good things” are relative to a given agent, and “good” is furtherance of the agent’s preferences. Or it could be a hidden (and false) claim of universality “good things” are anything that a lot of people support, and “are good” means truly pareto-preferred with no harm to anyone.
Your explanation “by a reasonable person” is pretty limiting, there being no persons who are reasonable on all topics. Likewise “actually good”—I think there’s no way to know even after it happens.
philosophy: while the claims “good things are good” and “bad things are bad” at first appear to be compatible with each other, actually we can construct a weird hypothetical involving exact clones that demonstrates that they are fundamentally inconsistent with each other
law: could there be ambiguity in “don’t do things that are bad as determined by a reasonable person, unless the thing is actually good?” well, unfortunately, there is no way to know until it actually happens
I think I need to hear more context (and likely more words in the sentences) to understand what inconsistency you’re talking about. “good things are good” COULD be just a tautology, with the assumption that “good things” are relative to a given agent, and “good” is furtherance of the agent’s preferences. Or it could be a hidden (and false) claim of universality “good things” are anything that a lot of people support, and “are good” means truly pareto-preferred with no harm to anyone.
Your explanation “by a reasonable person” is pretty limiting, there being no persons who are reasonable on all topics. Likewise “actually good”—I think there’s no way to know even after it happens.