I definitely agree that this fails as a complete formula for assessing what’s good or bad. My feeling is that it offers an orientation that can be helpful for people aggregating stuff they think into all-things-considered judgements (and e.g. I would in retrospect have preferred to have had more of this orientation in the past).
If someone were using this framework to stop thinking about things that I thought they ought to consider, I couldn’t be confident that they weren’t making a good faith effort to act wholesomely, but I at least would think that their actions weren’t wholesome by my lights.
I definitely agree that this fails as a complete formula for assessing what’s good or bad. My feeling is that it offers an orientation that can be helpful for people aggregating stuff they think into all-things-considered judgements (and e.g. I would in retrospect have preferred to have had more of this orientation in the past).
If someone were using this framework to stop thinking about things that I thought they ought to consider, I couldn’t be confident that they weren’t making a good faith effort to act wholesomely, but I at least would think that their actions weren’t wholesome by my lights.