I meant "morally horrified" as shorthand for "high confidence that what is described greatly reduces happiness". If you have a decision-making process that operates without you feeling anything, I would like to hear about it. In that case, you might enjoy reading Gut Feelings, which describes how feelings typically help people accurately make decisions in a time-limited environment. In some scenarios, allowing time to think and reflect resulted in a less-accurate decision-making than relying on snap judgments, for example because time allowed people to assign too much meaning to unreliable information.
While a fun reading in context, they do not represent anything more.
This could be said about any text anyone disagrees with.
This could be said about any text anyone disagrees with.
No, it really couldn't - not with a similar degree of justification, anyway.
(Why is this a bad comment? Not everything is a fully general counterargument, and the context here is definitely nontrivial!)
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