Saying that we should donate there as opposed to AMF, for example, I would argue is trolleying. You’re making tradeoffs and implicitly saying this is worth as much as that. Perhaps you’re giving lower trade offs than the pain pleasure stuff, but you didn’t really mention these, and they seem important to the end claim “and for these reasons, you should donate to shrimp welfare.”
But I’m not trolleying them—I’m talking about how bad their suffering is.
Saying that we should donate there as opposed to AMF, for example, I would argue is trolleying. You’re making tradeoffs and implicitly saying this is worth as much as that. Perhaps you’re giving lower trade offs than the pain pleasure stuff, but you didn’t really mention these, and they seem important to the end claim “and for these reasons, you should donate to shrimp welfare.”
Fischer’s not against using it for tradeoffs, he’s against using it as a singular indicator of worth.