Presumably, the idea of a better world has that "better" adjective attached to it because it is better according to the system of values of one describing it as such, not the system of values of people in the hypothetical world. This is why we are not agitating for a society of widespread human sacrifice, regardless of whether the people in this society approve of ripping out people's hearts and offering them to the sun god or not.
--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
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> Why do you assume that we must be motivated by
> self-interest?
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> Miles
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