Prawnoffate’s point to begin with was that humans could and would change their fundamental values on new information about what is moral. I suggested sociopaths as an example of people who wouldn’t change their values to conform to those of other people on the basis of argument or evidence, nor would ordinary humans change their fundamental values to a sociopath’s.
If we’ve progressed to a discussion of whether it’s possible to coerce less powerful agents into behaving in accordance with our values, I think we’ve departed from the context in which sociopaths were relevant in the first place.
Prawnoffate’s point to begin with was that humans could and would change their fundamental values on new information about what is moral. I suggested sociopaths as an example of people who wouldn’t change their values to conform to those of other people on the basis of argument or evidence, nor would ordinary humans change their fundamental values to a sociopath’s.
If we’ve progressed to a discussion of whether it’s possible to coerce less powerful agents into behaving in accordance with our values, I think we’ve departed from the context in which sociopaths were relevant in the first place.
Oh, sorry, I wasn’t disagreeing with you about that, just nitpicking your example. Should have made that clearer ;)