 A possible response for the design theorist, anticipated by Weisberg (2012: 713), would be to support \(\eqref{alternative1}\) by arguing that the designer would plausibly first choose either stringent or lax laws, sidestepping her intention to enable the existence of life at that stage or actively preferring stringent laws, and only then choosing life-friendly constants. A problem with this response, similar to the difficulties discussed in  Section 3.4,  is that we have little experience with cosmic designers and, therefore, difficulties to predict the hypothesized designer’s preferences and likely actions.