Are you trying to appeal to instrumental rationality, epistemic rationality, or some other kind?
An instrumentally rational agent wouldn’t disregard a stronger preference of theirs in favour of a weaker preference of theirs. But other agent’s preferences are not my own, and instrumental rationality does not oblige me to promote them.
Nor do epistemically rational agents have to abstain from meat. Even if moral realism were true, and eating animals were wrong, it doesn’t follow that moral internalism is true: you might know that eating animals was wrong, but not be motivated to abstain. And even if knowledge did imply overwhelming motivation (an implausibly strong version of moral internalism) , our epistemically rational agent still wouldn’t be obliged to abstain from eating meat, as she might simply be unaware of this moral truth. epistemic rationality doesn’t imply omniscience.
If you have some other conception of rationality in mind, you have no objection to Eliezer, as he is only concerned with these two kinds.
Are you trying to appeal to instrumental rationality, epistemic rationality, or some other kind?
An instrumentally rational agent wouldn’t disregard a stronger preference of theirs in favour of a weaker preference of theirs. But other agent’s preferences are not my own, and instrumental rationality does not oblige me to promote them.
Nor do epistemically rational agents have to abstain from meat. Even if moral realism were true, and eating animals were wrong, it doesn’t follow that moral internalism is true: you might know that eating animals was wrong, but not be motivated to abstain. And even if knowledge did imply overwhelming motivation (an implausibly strong version of moral internalism) , our epistemically rational agent still wouldn’t be obliged to abstain from eating meat, as she might simply be unaware of this moral truth. epistemic rationality doesn’t imply omniscience.
If you have some other conception of rationality in mind, you have no objection to Eliezer, as he is only concerned with these two kinds.