I get the vague ‘hidden argument’ feeling that I get from seeing Dark Arts in action.
A paraphrase of a theme in my post is that people whose motives are unobjectionable and widely admired in our society have given the readers a gift motivated by X, and then to point out that many reader and posters are using that gift for motive Y, which, yeah, is a use of Dark Arts.
Yes. Operating off of a utility function which attaches values to different world-states and acting according to consequential ethics, it just doesn’t seem to make any sense.
A paraphrase of a theme in my post is that people whose motives are unobjectionable and widely admired in our society have given the readers a gift motivated by X, and then to point out that many reader and posters are using that gift for motive Y, which, yeah, is a use of Dark Arts.
Is that part of your objection to my post?
Yes. Operating off of a utility function which attaches values to different world-states and acting according to consequential ethics, it just doesn’t seem to make any sense.