I skimmed the FAQ (no time to read it in detail right now, though I have bookmarked it for later). I must say that it doesn’t address some of the most crucial problems of consequentialism.
Most notably, as far as I can tell, you don’t even address the problem of interpersonal utility comparison, which makes the whole enterprise moot from the beginning. Then, as far as I see, you give the game-theoretic concerns only a cursory passing mention, whereas in reality, the inability to account for those is one reason why attempts to derive useful guidelines for action based on maximizing some measure of aggregate welfare are usually doomed to end up in nonsense. This, in turn, is just a special case of the general law of unintended consequences that consequentialists typically treat with hubristic nonchalance. I don’t see any discussion of these essential issues.
On the whole, I would guess that your FAQ will sound convincing to a certain type of people, but it fails to address the most important problems with the views you advocate.
I skimmed the FAQ (no time to read it in detail right now, though I have bookmarked it for later). I must say that it doesn’t address some of the most crucial problems of consequentialism.
Most notably, as far as I can tell, you don’t even address the problem of interpersonal utility comparison, which makes the whole enterprise moot from the beginning. Then, as far as I see, you give the game-theoretic concerns only a cursory passing mention, whereas in reality, the inability to account for those is one reason why attempts to derive useful guidelines for action based on maximizing some measure of aggregate welfare are usually doomed to end up in nonsense. This, in turn, is just a special case of the general law of unintended consequences that consequentialists typically treat with hubristic nonchalance. I don’t see any discussion of these essential issues.
On the whole, I would guess that your FAQ will sound convincing to a certain type of people, but it fails to address the most important problems with the views you advocate.