First, I think we want to be thinking in terms of [personal morality we’d reflectively endorse] rather than [all the base, weird, conflicting… drivers of behaviour that happen to be in our heads].
There are things most of us would wish to change about ourselves if we could. There’s no sense in baking them in for all eternity (or bargaining on their behalf), just because they happen to form part of what drives us now. [though one does have to be a bit careful here, since it’s easy to miss the upside of qualities we regard as flaws]
With this in mind, reflectively endorsed antinatalism really is a problem: yes, some people will endorse sacrificing everything just to get to a world where there’s no suffering (because there are no people).
Note that the kinds of bargaining approach Vanessa is advocating are aimed at guaranteeing a lower bound for everyone (who’s not pre-filtered out) - so you only need to include one person with a particularly weird view to fail to reach a sensible bargain. [though her most recent version should avoid this]
First, I think we want to be thinking in terms of [personal morality we’d reflectively endorse] rather than [all the base, weird, conflicting… drivers of behaviour that happen to be in our heads].
There are things most of us would wish to change about ourselves if we could. There’s no sense in baking them in for all eternity (or bargaining on their behalf), just because they happen to form part of what drives us now. [though one does have to be a bit careful here, since it’s easy to miss the upside of qualities we regard as flaws]
With this in mind, reflectively endorsed antinatalism really is a problem: yes, some people will endorse sacrificing everything just to get to a world where there’s no suffering (because there are no people).
Note that the kinds of bargaining approach Vanessa is advocating are aimed at guaranteeing a lower bound for everyone (who’s not pre-filtered out) - so you only need to include one person with a particularly weird view to fail to reach a sensible bargain. [though her most recent version should avoid this]