I know that you said comments should focus on things that were confusing, so I’ll admit to being quite confused.
Early in the article you said that it’s not possible to agree on definitions of man and woman because of competing ideological needs—directly after creating a functional evo-psych justification for a set of answers that you claim is accepted by nearly every people group to have ever existed. I find this confusing. Perhaps it is better to use a different example, because the one you used seemed so convincing that it overshadowed your point.
There is, in my opinion, and unreasonably large distance between when you talk about “uncertainty” and when you talk about the fact that it can be almost completely ignored in daily life. If it’s not so important in general daily life, then mentioning this early will help people understand better as you show examples where it actually does matter.
As far as choiceless mode goes, you say something to the effect of “if people can have any (moral?) choice at all, then it’s not actually choiceless mode at all”. However, this would imply that choiceless mode has actually never existed, as there has always been some degree of choice in morality and worldview. Either what people were yearning for wasn’t choiceless mode, or that there is some threshold of moral choice that cannot be exceeded.
I believe it would be less confusing if you mentioned earlier that “moral uncertainty” refers to an individual being uncertain about any specific moral judgment, rather than a sense of “morality doesn’t exist” or “morality is unknowable”.
I feel that, as a chapter, I’m not completely sure what I’m supposed to take away from it. Perhaps the use of some progressive summarization or some signposting would help in that regard. It’s not that any of the points made are bad or something like this, and I’m not talking about individual sentence structure. But overall, there doesn’t really feel like a huge connection between the sections. Logically, I can see what the connection is supposed to be, but when reading it feels more like mini essays arranged on a topic than a chapter.
Overall, I found the chapter interesting. And as I said, I was actually very convinced by the evo-psych answer to “man” and “woman” and plan to write on it in the near future.
I know that you said comments should focus on things that were confusing, so I’ll admit to being quite confused.
Early in the article you said that it’s not possible to agree on definitions of man and woman because of competing ideological needs—directly after creating a functional evo-psych justification for a set of answers that you claim is accepted by nearly every people group to have ever existed. I find this confusing. Perhaps it is better to use a different example, because the one you used seemed so convincing that it overshadowed your point.
There is, in my opinion, and unreasonably large distance between when you talk about “uncertainty” and when you talk about the fact that it can be almost completely ignored in daily life. If it’s not so important in general daily life, then mentioning this early will help people understand better as you show examples where it actually does matter.
As far as choiceless mode goes, you say something to the effect of “if people can have any (moral?) choice at all, then it’s not actually choiceless mode at all”. However, this would imply that choiceless mode has actually never existed, as there has always been some degree of choice in morality and worldview. Either what people were yearning for wasn’t choiceless mode, or that there is some threshold of moral choice that cannot be exceeded.
I believe it would be less confusing if you mentioned earlier that “moral uncertainty” refers to an individual being uncertain about any specific moral judgment, rather than a sense of “morality doesn’t exist” or “morality is unknowable”.
I feel that, as a chapter, I’m not completely sure what I’m supposed to take away from it. Perhaps the use of some progressive summarization or some signposting would help in that regard. It’s not that any of the points made are bad or something like this, and I’m not talking about individual sentence structure. But overall, there doesn’t really feel like a huge connection between the sections. Logically, I can see what the connection is supposed to be, but when reading it feels more like mini essays arranged on a topic than a chapter.
Overall, I found the chapter interesting. And as I said, I was actually very convinced by the evo-psych answer to “man” and “woman” and plan to write on it in the near future.