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Dec 17, 2023·edited Dec 17, 2023

You mentioned scalar ethics a bit in the article, which you distinguish from both of your options. Of the two options you discuss, the scalar approach is more similar to extramoral limits. I'd be interested to hear more about how you think they relate.

I'd also like to hear about how the extramoral approach works when cuttoffs are arbitrary (e.g. how hard to work etc.).

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As I understand scalar theories in the article, they do not imply any moral demands at all. So it is not clear to me that, for example, scalar utilitarianism is more akin to extramoral approaches than to intramoral approaches. Rather, one might argue for scalar utilitarianism if one believes that one needs to describe the content of morality in such a way that no intramoral limits to moral demands are transgressed.

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