Valuing consistency is silly. If someone suggests putting one thief in jail and letting another go free, you won’t object because it’s inconsistent. You’ll either object because you don’t think thieves should go to jail, or because you don’t think the should go free. Inconsistency just makes it easier to give a reason why it’s wrong. You don’t need to know whether or not a given person thinks thieves should be jailed to convince them that that isn’t the best thing to do.
If you don’t accept Pascal’s mugging, you have to have some reason for it. The same goes if you do accept. Consistency probably isn’t the reason either way. Why is it you disagree with Pascal’s mugging?
If there is a reason, it should apply to everything else. Not out of consistency. Just out of the fact that it’s there. If it “doesn’t apply” to something, that just means that the reason isn’t very applicable there, and if you thought it was, you were oversimplifying the reason.
Valuing consistency is silly. If someone suggests putting one thief in jail and letting another go free, you won’t object because it’s inconsistent. You’ll either object because you don’t think thieves should go to jail, or because you don’t think the should go free. Inconsistency just makes it easier to give a reason why it’s wrong. You don’t need to know whether or not a given person thinks thieves should be jailed to convince them that that isn’t the best thing to do.
If you don’t accept Pascal’s mugging, you have to have some reason for it. The same goes if you do accept. Consistency probably isn’t the reason either way. Why is it you disagree with Pascal’s mugging?
If there is a reason, it should apply to everything else. Not out of consistency. Just out of the fact that it’s there. If it “doesn’t apply” to something, that just means that the reason isn’t very applicable there, and if you thought it was, you were oversimplifying the reason.