You seem to value loyalty and generally want to be a tit-for-tat player + forgiveness. That makes sense, as does calibrating for the external environment in the case of PDs. You also view the intellectual commons as being increasingly corrupted by prejudiced discrimination.
This makes sense to me. This makes sense, but I think the thinking here is getting overwhelmed by the emotional strength of politicization. In general, it is easy to exaggerate how much defection is actually going on, and so give oneself an excuse for nursing wounds and grudges longer than absolutely necessary. I’m guilty of this and so speak from some experience. So I think there’s an emotional mistake here. Perhaps fixed by seeking out “philosophical repose”, a bit more detachment from reacting to the opinions and thoughts of others.
Intellectually, I think you are making an important mistake. Cooperation in PDs and moral philosophy are two different, though related, things. Welfarist utilitarianism does not require impartiality, but choosing those actions which maximize good consequences. Since your reason for rejecting welfsrism is because of the consequences of not punishing free riders, you have not yet rejected utilitarianism. You are rejecting impartiality as a necessary tenant of utilitarianism, but that is not the same thing as rejecting utilitarianism. You have to go one step further and give non-consequentialist reasons for rejecting them.
You seem to value loyalty and generally want to be a tit-for-tat player + forgiveness. That makes sense, as does calibrating for the external environment in the case of PDs. You also view the intellectual commons as being increasingly corrupted by prejudiced discrimination.
This makes sense to me. This makes sense, but I think the thinking here is getting overwhelmed by the emotional strength of politicization. In general, it is easy to exaggerate how much defection is actually going on, and so give oneself an excuse for nursing wounds and grudges longer than absolutely necessary. I’m guilty of this and so speak from some experience. So I think there’s an emotional mistake here. Perhaps fixed by seeking out “philosophical repose”, a bit more detachment from reacting to the opinions and thoughts of others.
Intellectually, I think you are making an important mistake. Cooperation in PDs and moral philosophy are two different, though related, things. Welfarist utilitarianism does not require impartiality, but choosing those actions which maximize good consequences. Since your reason for rejecting welfsrism is because of the consequences of not punishing free riders, you have not yet rejected utilitarianism. You are rejecting impartiality as a necessary tenant of utilitarianism, but that is not the same thing as rejecting utilitarianism. You have to go one step further and give non-consequentialist reasons for rejecting them.
Hope that helps.