No problem about long reply, I think your arguments are good and give me a lot to think about.
My attempt at interpreting what you mean is that you’re drawing a distinction between morality about world-states vs. morality about process, internal details, experiencing it, ‘yourself’.
I just thought of another possible classification: “zeroth-order consequentialist” (care about doing the action but not because of consequences), “first-order consequentialist” (care about consequences), “second-order consequentialist” (care about someone else being able to choose what to do). I guess you’re right that all of these can be translated into first-order. But by the same token, everything can be translated to zeroth-order. And the translation from second to first feels about as iffy as the translation from first to zeroth. So this still feels fuzzy to me, I’m not sure what is right.
No problem about long reply, I think your arguments are good and give me a lot to think about.
I just thought of another possible classification: “zeroth-order consequentialist” (care about doing the action but not because of consequences), “first-order consequentialist” (care about consequences), “second-order consequentialist” (care about someone else being able to choose what to do). I guess you’re right that all of these can be translated into first-order. But by the same token, everything can be translated to zeroth-order. And the translation from second to first feels about as iffy as the translation from first to zeroth. So this still feels fuzzy to me, I’m not sure what is right.