A framework for decision-making that hinges on building robust models of others, ensuring sufficient care for others’ wellbeing, and securing our ability to execute the implied behavior.
Re “The world is marked by Divine failures of Model, Care, and Execution, and all of our failings are made in that image.”
I’d argue from a parenting model that some evil occurs not from a failure of Model, Care, or execution, but because the model includes giving the children free will to experiment and express themselves even if it turns out that their choices are not good for them, either individually, or for some of them, or even all of them. There is an aspect of paternalism— in that it’s God’s model, not the individual’s model that is the focus that’s ichy when talking about co-equal grownups but even there, sometimes it makes sense, particularly as you point out for people who know one another well. (“I know they say they’re not hungry, but I know them well enough to know that they will be happier if they eat.”). And I think there’s also an aspect of whether we both model and care for the “kind” or the kind individual organism. To apply this to roommates, I’m thinking about a quad or trip: do you think we can talk about a model for a grou —that is, what’s good for the group, or what the group would want, or what the actor would want for the group?
Re “The world is marked by Divine failures of Model, Care, and Execution, and all of our failings are made in that image.”
I’d argue from a parenting model that some evil occurs not from a failure of Model, Care, or execution, but because the model includes giving the children free will to experiment and express themselves even if it turns out that their choices are not good for them, either individually, or for some of them, or even all of them. There is an aspect of paternalism— in that it’s God’s model, not the individual’s model that is the focus that’s ichy when talking about co-equal grownups but even there, sometimes it makes sense, particularly as you point out for people who know one another well. (“I know they say they’re not hungry, but I know them well enough to know that they will be happier if they eat.”). And I think there’s also an aspect of whether we both model and care for the “kind” or the kind individual organism. To apply this to roommates, I’m thinking about a quad or trip: do you think we can talk about a model for a grou —that is, what’s good for the group, or what the group would want, or what the actor would want for the group?