Suppose I’m sad about being ugly, and want to be pretty instead. It wouldn’t be helping me to say, “Okay, let’s redefine the word ‘pretty’ such that it includes you”, because the original concept of “pretty” in my map was tracking features of the territory that I care about (about how people appraise and react to my appearance), which gets broken if you change the map without changing the territory.
Yes, but also if people bully you for being ugly, maybe a ban on bullying is an effective action.
(Unpacking the metaphor: sometimes there are multiple reasons why a person wants to do X, and some of them cannot be helped by a certain kind of action, but some could be. Then it depends on how the person will feel about the partial success.)
Yes, but also if people bully you for being ugly, maybe a ban on bullying is an effective action.
(Unpacking the metaphor: sometimes there are multiple reasons why a person wants to do X, and some of them cannot be helped by a certain kind of action, but some could be. Then it depends on how the person will feel about the partial success.)