Moral circle widening groups together two processes that I think mostly shouldn’t be grouped together:
1. Changing one’s values so the same kind of phenomenon becomes equally important regardless of whom it happens in (e.g. suffering in a human who lives far away)
2. Changing one’s values so more different phenomena become important (e.g. suffering in a squid brain)
Maybe if you do it right, #2 reduces to #1, but I don’t think that should be assumed.
Moral circle widening groups together two processes that I think mostly shouldn’t be grouped together:
1. Changing one’s values so the same kind of phenomenon becomes equally important regardless of whom it happens in (e.g. suffering in a human who lives far away)
2. Changing one’s values so more different phenomena become important (e.g. suffering in a squid brain)
Maybe if you do it right, #2 reduces to #1, but I don’t think that should be assumed.