I value not being a dick, and not only nobody finding out that I’m a dick.
Maybe if I was magically changed so as not to care about whether I was a dick or not, I wouldn’t act like a dick in most ordinary situations because of the negative consequences of people finding out that I’m a dick. But I don’t want not care about being a dick, because then I’d be a dick, and I don’t want to be a dick.
By a dick I mean the kind of person who does thing I disapprove of—cutting in line, abusing free resources, defecting in prisoner’s dilemma-type situations, etc. I may not have a perfect reductionist-grade definition, but I have a mental concept I don’t want to be associated to (and I suppose the same goes for most neurotypical humans).
I value not being a dick, and not only nobody finding out that I’m a dick.
Maybe if I was magically changed so as not to care about whether I was a dick or not, I wouldn’t act like a dick in most ordinary situations because of the negative consequences of people finding out that I’m a dick. But I don’t want not care about being a dick, because then I’d be a dick, and I don’t want to be a dick.
Could you taboo the word “dick”.
Incidentally, this sounds like an argument based on virtue ethics.
By a dick I mean the kind of person who does thing I disapprove of—cutting in line, abusing free resources, defecting in prisoner’s dilemma-type situations, etc. I may not have a perfect reductionist-grade definition, but I have a mental concept I don’t want to be associated to (and I suppose the same goes for most neurotypical humans).