From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 22:16:00 MDT
On 6/16/2003, Lee Corbin wrote:
>For another, values constitute a large part of patriotism or
>love. One treasures that which is loved, or treasures the group
>to which one has loyalty. This means willingly sacrificing the
>benefit of those who are not of one's group, or not loved. Do
>you agree that two ideal perfect Bayesians might nonetheless
>firmly disagree about to whom a piece of real estate belongs?
>Or do ideal Bayesians have no values?
Yes, of course Bayesians can disagree about values, about what
they want to have happen. Whether this lets them disagree about
who some property "belongs" to depends on whether we are talking
about values, who do I wish it would belong to, or facts, who
in fact owns the property according to some set of legal rules.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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