When I discuss this with people, the response is often something like: My value system includes a term for people other than myself—indeed, that’s what “morality” is—so it’s redundant / double-counting to posit that I should value others’ well-being also as an acausal “means” to achieving my own ends. However, I get the sense that this disagreement is purely semantic.
See also Newcomblike problems are the norm.
When I discuss this with people, the response is often something like: My value system includes a term for people other than myself—indeed, that’s what “morality” is—so it’s redundant / double-counting to posit that I should value others’ well-being also as an acausal “means” to achieving my own ends. However, I get the sense that this disagreement is purely semantic.