I think you may be extrapolating over all people’s preferences, whereas I’m modeling a limited perspective; that is, I’m evaluating the pareto improvement from the set of known-to-the-modeler’s preferences. A privileged moral perspective doesn’t need to be aware of unprivileged moral perspectives; that’s a major component of the basic privilege involved.
I can see why that would be confusing. But I don’t think it is necessarily useful to characterize the behavior as bullying; that definitely can be how it feels, granted. Hrm. “It isn’t that they don’t think you matter, it is that they don’t know you exist.”
I think you may be extrapolating over all people’s preferences, whereas I’m modeling a limited perspective; that is, I’m evaluating the pareto improvement from the set of known-to-the-modeler’s preferences. A privileged moral perspective doesn’t need to be aware of unprivileged moral perspectives; that’s a major component of the basic privilege involved.
I can see why that would be confusing. But I don’t think it is necessarily useful to characterize the behavior as bullying; that definitely can be how it feels, granted. Hrm. “It isn’t that they don’t think you matter, it is that they don’t know you exist.”