Great post. I myself have used preferences about ice cream flavors as an intuitive, accessible way to illustrate the nature of subjective preferences, but it was not my intent to also imply that on subjectivism moral preferences are trivial or mundane. I will keep your post in mind the next time I write about the nature of subjective preferences.
I try to use high-stakes examples for this reason. Who to marry, where to live, what to do with your life. Very realist-minded people will often think instrumental or prudential decisions involve catagorical imperatives though, so it doesn’t always get through to them.
Great post. I myself have used preferences about ice cream flavors as an intuitive, accessible way to illustrate the nature of subjective preferences, but it was not my intent to also imply that on subjectivism moral preferences are trivial or mundane. I will keep your post in mind the next time I write about the nature of subjective preferences.
I try to use high-stakes examples for this reason. Who to marry, where to live, what to do with your life. Very realist-minded people will often think instrumental or prudential decisions involve catagorical imperatives though, so it doesn’t always get through to them.