For convenience, I blurred the distinction between normative and factual problems. But the thing is, given that you have some terminal values, you can start talking rather objectively about “problems” in a normative sense. For example, among people who think that death is bad, you can say that such and such a policy or action causes lots of deaths, and that if we ever think of a way to reduce those deaths, we should consider it.
People who have a certain value, but are unwilling to recognize that it’s not being achieved, are being illogical in the same way as people who are unwilling to recognize that a proof is flawed.
For convenience, I blurred the distinction between normative and factual problems. But the thing is, given that you have some terminal values, you can start talking rather objectively about “problems” in a normative sense. For example, among people who think that death is bad, you can say that such and such a policy or action causes lots of deaths, and that if we ever think of a way to reduce those deaths, we should consider it.
People who have a certain value, but are unwilling to recognize that it’s not being achieved, are being illogical in the same way as people who are unwilling to recognize that a proof is flawed.