Person’s values have only weak control over person’s actions, through the intermediary of their stupid deluded mind; the perfect world is not the one where everyone cooperated, far from that. If it’s not the person’s values that are to blame, handicapped by the shoddy implementation in human mind as they are, and the person is merely a broken tool of those values, what’s the point of assigning blame? What lesson does it teach?
Perhaps, the alternative to consider is people who understand this contrast, feel its full extent, and are moved by its moral value to do better. But the contrast given by the argument must meet the expected effect of the argument, which is some orders of magnitude away from what you seek in the impossible counterfactual world, one that isn’t real and so isn’t worth considering.
Person’s values have only weak control over person’s actions, through the intermediary of their stupid deluded mind; the perfect world is not the one where everyone cooperated, far from that. If it’s not the person’s values that are to blame, handicapped by the shoddy implementation in human mind as they are, and the person is merely a broken tool of those values, what’s the point of assigning blame? What lesson does it teach?
Perhaps, the alternative to consider is people who understand this contrast, feel its full extent, and are moved by its moral value to do better. But the contrast given by the argument must meet the expected effect of the argument, which is some orders of magnitude away from what you seek in the impossible counterfactual world, one that isn’t real and so isn’t worth considering.