Just because you feel an emotion based on something true, doesn’t mean that the emotion is reasonable. Many emotions are simply not capable of grasping all the details of reality; they base themselves on a vague picture. That vague picture may be true, but in many cases the details may well make the emotions based on the vague picture unreasonable.
So if I look up at the stars and feel a boundless wonder and awe at the immense distances I am being vague and not really reasonable at all? If I feel joy for all the people saved with modern medicine? If I feel pain for all the poverty and suffering?
How exactly are these unreasonable? The latter two drive me to do good in the world.
I think you can charitably assume that if you’ve come up with a particular emotion based on a vague picture that’s reasonable, then that’s not the one that Unknown is talking about.
To answer from my own perspective, scope insensitivity can lead to emotions comparing improperly. It is not very good if the emotion from one person being in danger motivates you just as much as 1 million people in danger.
Just because you feel an emotion based on something true, doesn’t mean that the emotion is reasonable. Many emotions are simply not capable of grasping all the details of reality; they base themselves on a vague picture. That vague picture may be true, but in many cases the details may well make the emotions based on the vague picture unreasonable.
So if I look up at the stars and feel a boundless wonder and awe at the immense distances I am being vague and not really reasonable at all? If I feel joy for all the people saved with modern medicine? If I feel pain for all the poverty and suffering?
How exactly are these unreasonable? The latter two drive me to do good in the world.
I think you can charitably assume that if you’ve come up with a particular emotion based on a vague picture that’s reasonable, then that’s not the one that Unknown is talking about.
To answer from my own perspective, scope insensitivity can lead to emotions comparing improperly. It is not very good if the emotion from one person being in danger motivates you just as much as 1 million people in danger.