It seems the ultimate confusion here is that we are talking about instrumental values . . . before agreeing on terminal values . . .
If we could agree on some well-defined goal, e.g. maximization of human happiness, we could much more easily theorize on whether a particular case of murder would benefit or harm that goal.
denis bider, I would not be surprised to learn that refraining from murder is a terminal value for Eliezer. Eliezer’s writings imply that he has hundreds of terminal values: he cannot even enumerate them all.
Defn. “Murder” is killing under particular circumstances, e.g., not by uniformed soldiers during a war, not in self-defense, not by accident.
denis bider, I would not be surprised to learn that refraining from murder is a terminal value for Eliezer. Eliezer’s writings imply that he has hundreds of terminal values: he cannot even enumerate them all.
Defn. “Murder” is killing under particular circumstances, e.g., not by uniformed soldiers during a war, not in self-defense, not by accident.