Suppose that you act to do A to another but are unwilling to have A done to you in the same situation; you violate GR and your action-desire combination is inconsistent. Which should you change -- your action or your desire?
Suppose that you act to do A to another but are unwilling to have A done to you in the same situation; you violate GR and your action-desire combination is inconsistent. Which should you change -- your action or your desire?
Perhaps your action is fine but your desire is defective!
Suppose that you act to do A to another but are unwilling to have A done to you in the same situation; you violate GR and your action-desire combination is inconsistent. Which should you change -- your action or your desire?
Perhaps your desire is fine but your action is defective!
Suppose that you act to do A to another but are unwilling to have A done to you in the same situation; you violate GR and your action-desire combination is inconsistent. Which should you change -- your action or your desire?
When we violate GR, usually our desires are fine but our actions are defective. So a rough rule is that, unless we have a special reason to doubt our desires, we should change how we act toward the other person.
Various things could lead us to question our desires. Maybe other people criticize our desires. Or maybe our desires rest on ignorance and early upbringing. Chapter 7 sketches how to make our desires more rational.