Ethics and Values / Unit 7 Ethics 322 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Informed-Desire Repair
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The idea
The informed-desire repair counts only desires a person would keep when fully informed and thinking well — a fix that quietly imports standards beyond desire.
In practice
Filter the grass-counter's wish through full information and it fails — but the filter now knows what matters, which was the theory's one forbidden move.
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