Rejecting egoistic preference ordering can rest on non-selfish reasons like self-defense and group obligations
Evidence
It is very important that the costs do not have to be egoistic. Indeed, an agent who had had some disappointing experiences might come to reject, for egoistic reasons, the simplest psychological generalization of OR (that is to say, the disposition that consists merely in the fact that he always orders such outcomes in the OR way.) But a rejection of it could be expressed in terms of reasons that are not simply egoistic: by appealing to a right of self-defence, for instance (particularly when it is a matter of the kind of costs that are found unacceptable), or in the name of obligations to other groups, of family, friends, or whatever. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 139
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Rejecting unfair offers is fast and automatic while accepting is deliberative. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 636; The human organism’s default preferences produce self-damage — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2332