e.g., in that case I also prefer that thousands of people suffer so that I and my friends can live lives of ease, as long as the suffering hordes are sufficiently far away.
It is arguable (in terms of revealed preferences) that first-worlders typically do prefer that. This requires a slightly non-normative meaning of “prefer”, but a very useful one.
Oh, absolutely. I chose the example with that in mind.
I merely assert that “but that leads to thousands of people suffering!” is not a ridiculous moral problem for people (like me) who reveal such preferences to consider, and it’s not obvious that a model that causes the problem to evaporate is one that I endorse.
It is arguable (in terms of revealed preferences) that first-worlders typically do prefer that. This requires a slightly non-normative meaning of “prefer”, but a very useful one.
Oh, absolutely. I chose the example with that in mind.
I merely assert that “but that leads to thousands of people suffering!” is not a ridiculous moral problem for people (like me) who reveal such preferences to consider, and it’s not obvious that a model that causes the problem to evaporate is one that I endorse.