What does it have to do with “No True Scotsman”? NTS is when you redefine your categories to justify your claim. I don’t think I did that anywhere.
Just because the extreme doesn’t exist doesn’t mean that all of the scale can be explained by status games.
First, I didn’t say all the scale is explained by status games, I did mention empathy as well.
Second, that by itself sure doesn’t mean much. Explaining all the evidence would require an article, or maybe a book (although I hoped the posts I linked explain some of it). My point here is that there is an enormous discrepancy between the reported morality and the revealed preferences, so believing self-reports is clearly a non-starter. How do you build an explanation not from self-reports is a different (long) story.
What does it have to do with “No True Scotsman”? NTS is when you redefine your categories to justify your claim. I don’t think I did that anywhere.
First, I didn’t say all the scale is explained by status games, I did mention empathy as well.
Second, that by itself sure doesn’t mean much. Explaining all the evidence would require an article, or maybe a book (although I hoped the posts I linked explain some of it). My point here is that there is an enormous discrepancy between the reported morality and the revealed preferences, so believing self-reports is clearly a non-starter. How do you build an explanation not from self-reports is a different (long) story.
I agree that there is an enormous discrepancy.