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Larry D'Anna: The reason that we say it is too big is because there are subsets of Mindspace that do admit universally compelling arguments, such as (we hope) neurologically intact humans.
What precisely is neurological intactness? It rather seems to me that the majority agrees on some set of "self-evident" terminal values, and those few people that do not are called psychopaths. If by "human" we mean what usually people understand by this term, then there are no compelling arguments even for humans. Althoug I gladly admit your statement is approximatively valid, I am not sure how to formulate it to be exactly true and not simultaneously a tautology.