downvoted for politics, and for unhelpful framing of freedom as a general thing, rather than what is generally meant “ability to do specific things that I want without being punished legally or socially”. Also “sith” seems to be an important word here, which isn’t defined anywhere I can find, and seems to be a pretty dense cluster of ideas that pattern-matches to political terms that end up looking a lot like motte-and-bailey arguments when unpacked.
I was disappointed that it didn’t engage at all with the title, which might be interesting. Freedom, of course, isn’t even instrumentally valuable if the specific constraints on freedom aren’t binding. “Freedom to do the optimum thing” isn’t actually freedom in any useful sense. Freedom to cause harm or freedom to waste or freedom to make moral or tactical errors is the important element of freedom, and it’s absolutely useless and counterproductive to a Utilitarian (or other) optimizer.
downvoted for politics, and for unhelpful framing of freedom as a general thing, rather than what is generally meant “ability to do specific things that I want without being punished legally or socially”. Also “sith” seems to be an important word here, which isn’t defined anywhere I can find, and seems to be a pretty dense cluster of ideas that pattern-matches to political terms that end up looking a lot like motte-and-bailey arguments when unpacked.
I was disappointed that it didn’t engage at all with the title, which might be interesting. Freedom, of course, isn’t even instrumentally valuable if the specific constraints on freedom aren’t binding. “Freedom to do the optimum thing” isn’t actually freedom in any useful sense. Freedom to cause harm or freedom to waste or freedom to make moral or tactical errors is the important element of freedom, and it’s absolutely useless and counterproductive to a Utilitarian (or other) optimizer.