Submitted by contractualist t3_115h6a0 in philosophy
KingJeff314 t1_j92wme4 wrote
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> And the error in the last section was treating X's freedom and Y's freedom separately. Freedom is an objective property that cannot reasonably be differentiated. Its not agent-relative, it is agency. There is no X's freedom or Y's freedom, there is only freedom that both X and Y happen to possess.
To make a statement like "you should not kidnap a person", you have to appeal to a value like "you value that person's freedom", not "you value freedom", which is nebulous and non-specific. Supposing that I was a psychopath and only cared about my own freedom (ie. Freedom(Me, Me)), what rational grounds do you have to make me care about anyone else?
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