I can’t quite grasp the idea of having multiple terminal values, values other than happiness. It seems to me that the mother believes that if she DOESN’T save her child, the rest of her life her mental state will be poor, both from her son being dead but also the guilt of not saving him when she could. So, she is still picking between future mental states: either having a negative future mental state or having no mental state at all. She judges that the death of her son and the guilt that she would feel is great enough that her mental state will go down an... (read more)
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I can’t quite grasp the idea of having multiple terminal values, values other than happiness. It seems to me that the mother believes that if she DOESN’T save her child, the rest of her life her mental state will be poor, both from her son being dead but also the guilt of not saving him when she could. So, she is still picking between future mental states: either having a negative future mental state or having no mental state at all. She judges that the death of her son and the guilt that she would feel is great enough that her mental state will go down an... (read more)