Nothing in the body of the post supports the claim in the title of the post that “freedom is only instrumentally valuable”. Maybe it would be worthwhile dropping the claim in the title and just stating the actual subject, which appears to be the “cone” model?
Any argument about whether any particular value is “only instrumental” relies upon who holds the values under discussion. Some people do in fact support freedom as one of their terminal values, not just instrumental. Denying the existence of such people in the title and then not mentioning anything about the topic in the body is a pretty major disconnect.
Nothing in the body of the post supports the claim in the title of the post that “freedom is only instrumentally valuable”. Maybe it would be worthwhile dropping the claim in the title and just stating the actual subject, which appears to be the “cone” model?
Any argument about whether any particular value is “only instrumental” relies upon who holds the values under discussion. Some people do in fact support freedom as one of their terminal values, not just instrumental. Denying the existence of such people in the title and then not mentioning anything about the topic in the body is a pretty major disconnect.