This reasoning puts you squarely in a gilded cage. Surely, a preference for freedom can rationally have more weight than as a mere tiebreaker after comparisons of raw, short-term pragmatism. There is certainly room for discussion and dissension around what particular weightings are appropriate, but the lexicographic ordering applied in that last sentence is something I strongly reject.
This reasoning puts you squarely in a gilded cage. Surely, a preference for freedom can rationally have more weight than as a mere tiebreaker after comparisons of raw, short-term pragmatism. There is certainly room for discussion and dissension around what particular weightings are appropriate, but the lexicographic ordering applied in that last sentence is something I strongly reject.