Objections to Desirism: Disproof by Counter-Example

This is taken from Chapter 6, Section 1 of my dissertation. It aims to refute a class of objections against desirism - "disproof by counter-example". This type of objection invents a story in which something that the theory says is permissible is, in fact wrong. Or where the theory says that something is wrong that is, in fact, permissible. That the theory does not generate the correct answer is…