Maybe I’m missing the point, but I don’t get how Deep Nihilism could possibly be true. I don’t expect that there’s some neat moral theory that explains all my preferences and which I can safely optimize against, but there is some common-sense notion of the Good that makes me think “loving my family is better than murdering them.” If some idealization process causes me to reverse that preference… it’s probably the wrong idealization process.
Maybe I’m missing the point, but I don’t get how Deep Nihilism could possibly be true. I don’t expect that there’s some neat moral theory that explains all my preferences and which I can safely optimize against, but there is some common-sense notion of the Good that makes me think “loving my family is better than murdering them.” If some idealization process causes me to reverse that preference… it’s probably the wrong idealization process.