Something seems off to me about this view, and by off I mean it sounds like nonsense to me.
What’s pinging for me is that I take “victory” to mean successfully getting what you want, and I would take this to not just be shallowly getting what you want, but deeply getting it by getting it in the way you want to get it and without any undesirably side effects. Thus there’s no real sense to me in which it makes sense to say that victory is instrumental because it’s the ideal state of getting your desires met.
My read is that you’re trying to say something like victory only matters if it’s achieved by endorsed means, but that doesn’t mean victory is instrumental, only that it’s incomplete if achieved the wrong way.
Something seems off to me about this view, and by off I mean it sounds like nonsense to me.
What’s pinging for me is that I take “victory” to mean successfully getting what you want, and I would take this to not just be shallowly getting what you want, but deeply getting it by getting it in the way you want to get it and without any undesirably side effects. Thus there’s no real sense to me in which it makes sense to say that victory is instrumental because it’s the ideal state of getting your desires met.
My read is that you’re trying to say something like victory only matters if it’s achieved by endorsed means, but that doesn’t mean victory is instrumental, only that it’s incomplete if achieved the wrong way.