I’m confused why you wrote “It doesn’t mean ‘you should assume your initial intuitions and snap judgments are correct’” when in the very next sentence I said “But maybe my gut reaction isn’t that trustworthy—that’s often the case in ethical dilemmas.”?
I disagree with the claim ‘my gut reaction is that factory-farmed pigs would be better off not existing’
OK, but do you disagree with the claim ‘Turntrout’s gut reaction is that factory-farmed pigs would be better off not existing’? Because that’s true for me, at least on my first consideration of the issue.
[ETA: Removed superfluous reaction]
Attempted restatement of my point: My gut reaction is evidence about what my implicit C/A/M theories predict, which I should take seriously to the extent that I have been actually ingraining all the thought experiments I’ve considered. And just because the reaction isn’t subvocalized via a verbalized explicit theory, doesn’t mean it’s not important evidence.
Similarly: When considering an action, I may snap-judge it to be squidgy and bad, even though I didn’t yet run a full-blown game-theoretic analysis in my head.
(Let me know if I also seem to be sliding off of your point!)
I’m confused why you wrote “It doesn’t mean ‘you should assume your initial intuitions and snap judgments are correct’” when in the very next sentence I said “But maybe my gut reaction isn’t that trustworthy—that’s often the case in ethical dilemmas.”?
OK, but do you disagree with the claim ‘Turntrout’s gut reaction is that factory-farmed pigs would be better off not existing’? Because that’s true for me, at least on my first consideration of the issue.
[ETA: Removed superfluous reaction]
Attempted restatement of my point: My gut reaction is evidence about what my implicit C/A/M theories predict, which I should take seriously to the extent that I have been actually ingraining all the thought experiments I’ve considered. And just because the reaction isn’t subvocalized via a verbalized explicit theory, doesn’t mean it’s not important evidence.
Similarly: When considering an action, I may snap-judge it to be squidgy and bad, even though I didn’t yet run a full-blown game-theoretic analysis in my head.
(Let me know if I also seem to be sliding off of your point!)