Yes, it is not a ‘reductio ad absurdum’ in general, you are right. But it is one in the specific case of agents (like ourselves). I cannot decide that my suffering is not undesirable to me, and so I am limited to a normative frame of reference in at least this case.
I don’t think it’s wrong to ‘reason within’ that “normative frame of reference” but I think the point was that we can’t expect all other possible minds to reason in a similar way, even just from their own similar ‘frame of reference’.
I don’t think it’s wrong to also (always) consider things from our own frame of reference tho.
Yes, it is not a ‘reductio ad absurdum’ in general, you are right. But it is one in the specific case of agents (like ourselves). I cannot decide that my suffering is not undesirable to me, and so I am limited to a normative frame of reference in at least this case.
I don’t think it’s wrong to ‘reason within’ that “normative frame of reference” but I think the point was that we can’t expect all other possible minds to reason in a similar way, even just from their own similar ‘frame of reference’.
I don’t think it’s wrong to also (always) consider things from our own frame of reference tho.