The scenarios he suggested bear no relation to the original one. I order differently on different occasions because I am different. I have no favorite food; my desire in food as in many other things is variety. Organ donors—well, they’re almost all dead to begin with. Occasionally someone willingly donates a kidney while expecting to live themselves, and of course blood donations are commonplace. Well, fine. I don’t see why I would be expected to have an attitude to that based on what I have said about the red-pill-blue-pill puzzle.
As it happens, I do carry a donor card. But I expect to be dead, or at least dead-while-breathing by the time it is ever used.
Yeah, this seems close to the crux of the disagreement. The other side sees a relation and is absolutely puzzled why others wouldn’t, to the point where that particular disconnect may not even be in the hypothesis space.
When a true cause of disagreement is outside the hypothesis space the disagreement often ends up attributed to something that is in the hypothesis space, such as value differences. I suspect this kind of attribution error is behind most of the drama I’ve seen around the topic.
The scenarios he suggested bear no relation to the original one. I order differently on different occasions because I am different. I have no favorite food; my desire in food as in many other things is variety. Organ donors—well, they’re almost all dead to begin with. Occasionally someone willingly donates a kidney while expecting to live themselves, and of course blood donations are commonplace. Well, fine. I don’t see why I would be expected to have an attitude to that based on what I have said about the red-pill-blue-pill puzzle.
As it happens, I do carry a donor card. But I expect to be dead, or at least dead-while-breathing by the time it is ever used.
Yeah, this seems close to the crux of the disagreement. The other side sees a relation and is absolutely puzzled why others wouldn’t, to the point where that particular disconnect may not even be in the hypothesis space.
When a true cause of disagreement is outside the hypothesis space the disagreement often ends up attributed to something that is in the hypothesis space, such as value differences. I suspect this kind of attribution error is behind most of the drama I’ve seen around the topic.