Upvoted for content. Though it strikes me as slightly redundant (gut feeling), I think that it covers some important points. Organizationally, I would change your thesis so that it better reflected what the rest of the post was going to be about—the post struck me as rambling a little too much.
Thoughts:
Since I cannot prove my value system on an absolute scale, I sometimes restrict use of the word ‘should’ to technical applications where there’s no ambiguity about the objective. For moral arguments, I like to use ‘I think that you would want to’ as a replacement for ‘You should’—it seems more intellectually honest, less opaque, and less provocative.
I interpret ‘should have known better’ as a data-sparse, unnecessarily antagonistic comment—it doesn’t tell the listener much about how they should revise their updating system and risks causing negative emotions toward the speaker. I also think that it causes future action to be more pain motivated because ‘avoiding harsh correction’ may become one of the listener’s motivations for improving.
Upvoted for content. Though it strikes me as slightly redundant (gut feeling), I think that it covers some important points. Organizationally, I would change your thesis so that it better reflected what the rest of the post was going to be about—the post struck me as rambling a little too much.
Thoughts:
Since I cannot prove my value system on an absolute scale, I sometimes restrict use of the word ‘should’ to technical applications where there’s no ambiguity about the objective. For moral arguments, I like to use ‘I think that you would want to’ as a replacement for ‘You should’—it seems more intellectually honest, less opaque, and less provocative.
I interpret ‘should have known better’ as a data-sparse, unnecessarily antagonistic comment—it doesn’t tell the listener much about how they should revise their updating system and risks causing negative emotions toward the speaker. I also think that it causes future action to be more pain motivated because ‘avoiding harsh correction’ may become one of the listener’s motivations for improving.