Most people don’t have those intuitions. Most people have the intuition that future tuesday indifference is irrational and that it’s wrong to torture infants for fun and would be so even if everyone approved.
Argument “from intuition” doesn’t work this way. We appeal to intuitions if we don’t why, but almost everyone feels that X is true and everybody who doesn’t is in psychiatric ward. If you have major intuitive disagreement in baseline population, you don’t use argument from intuition.
Why think that? If I have a strong intuition, in the sense that I feel like I’ve grasped a truth, and others don’t, then it seems the best explanation is that they’re missing something.
Most people don’t have those intuitions. Most people have the intuition that future tuesday indifference is irrational and that it’s wrong to torture infants for fun and would be so even if everyone approved.
Argument “from intuition” doesn’t work this way. We appeal to intuitions if we don’t why, but almost everyone feels that X is true and everybody who doesn’t is in psychiatric ward. If you have major intuitive disagreement in baseline population, you don’t use argument from intuition.
Why think that? If I have a strong intuition, in the sense that I feel like I’ve grasped a truth, and others don’t, then it seems the best explanation is that they’re missing something.
Or that you are mistaken.