I don’t understand the Pascal’s mugging objection. What is the mugging here? Why are they “my elephants”?
I am not trying to convince you of anything here, I feel honestly confused about this question, and this is a question that I have found useful to ask myself in order to clarify my thinking on this.
What would your response be to the other question I posed in the thread?
I’m not sure what the other-galaxy-elephants mugging is, but my anti-Pascal’s-mugging defenses are set to defend me against muggings I do not entirely understand. In real life, I think that the mugging is “and therefore it is immoral of you to eat chickens.”
>Why are they “my elephants”?
You’re the one who made them up and/or is claiming they exist.
In the scenario I postulated elsethread, I specified that hypothetical you was exploring the problem by themselves, no external person involved, which I think most closely captures the thought experiment as it is intended.
I don’t understand the Pascal’s mugging objection. What is the mugging here? Why are they “my elephants”?
I am not trying to convince you of anything here, I feel honestly confused about this question, and this is a question that I have found useful to ask myself in order to clarify my thinking on this.
What would your response be to the other question I posed in the thread?
>What is the mugging here?
I’m not sure what the other-galaxy-elephants mugging is, but my anti-Pascal’s-mugging defenses are set to defend me against muggings I do not entirely understand. In real life, I think that the mugging is “and therefore it is immoral of you to eat chickens.”
>Why are they “my elephants”?
You’re the one who made them up and/or is claiming they exist.
I am not claiming that they exist. I am asking you to consider what you would do in the hypothetical in which you are convinced that they exist.
Replace “you” with “the hypothetical you who is attempting to convince hypothetical me they exist”, then
In the scenario I postulated elsethread, I specified that hypothetical you was exploring the problem by themselves, no external person involved, which I think most closely captures the thought experiment as it is intended.