![]() Understanding hard choices helps us uncover a hidden power that each of us possess. And the mistake we make is that we think we can. Or can we say, I love my mother 3 pounds, I want to become an engineer 5 cubic meter.? So, if we cannot quantify, how can we know one is better that the other? We cannot. These are not quantifiable, therefore not measurable. Our love for our family, or our passion for a job are fully subjective. Values are about feeling and about attitudes toward life, so they are truly subjective. In other words, when deciding about important things, we think that we should be able to quantify and measure them to eliminate all kinds of uncertainty and mistakes.īut, how can we? Isn’t future by detail uncertain? What goes wrong here is that we are confusing rationality with values and think that everything what is essentially important in life has be decided and acted upon based rationality. So, does it really make sense to conclude that engineering is the better option ? We simply do not know how can we know that engineering makes us happier in our future lives? Unfortunately, there are no fast forward and remind buttons for life. Remember in hard choices no option is better that the other. We prefer not to take any risk ad we go for the option that is rationally comforting. So, we take the safest option, because we fear that we are too stupid to understand the better option if the choice to make is hard. We decide to become engineers that artists, because statistically the probability of getting a job as an engineer is higher than of an artist. So, what do we do? We take the safest option. Ruth Chang says that hard choices are hard because none of the alternatives is way better than the other, therefore, even small choices can be hard, whether to have a donut or cereal bar can be a very hard choice indeed, if I like them both and if I am craving for sweets in the moment. Keywords: Philosophy, Ethics, moral, freedom, value, action and hard choice. That is why hard choices are not a curse but a godsend. When the ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ choices disappear, we have the power to create reasons for ourselves, and become the distinctive people we are. They allow the world around them to dictate their lives, they follow the obvious rewards, punishments, and fears to define them, Ruth was drifting when she chose to be a lawyer and later regretted it. People who don’t exercise their own reasons on hard choices become drifters. ![]() It is the ‘on a par’ decisions where we get to create our own reasons for picking one over the other and define who we are. We would then be slaves to our own reason. If life only consisted of easy choices, we would always pick the clearly better route. We need to see hard choices as empowering. ![]() When decisions are on a par, neither is better or worse than the other, and your lifestyle after the decision is not exactly the same, but you see both future lives as having a similar value. We need to make a 4th alternative, that things can be better, worse, equal or ‘on a par’. ![]() We also shouldn’t think of ourselves as stupid for being unable to pick best option, they may genuinely be equally good options.Ĭhoices are difficult because they cannot be easily broken down into numbers, all questions involving numbers can be broken down in easy way, is a mistake to think that these numerical comparisons have the same structure as the decisions between your future life. ![]() We think of them a big choice, but the same dilemma can happen when choosing breakfast, do you want healthy food or tasty food? by realizing that even these small choices are hard, we can make the big ones easier, if I managed to eat breakfast, I should be able to choose a new job. In a hard choice has better qualities, but neither is clear better. Ruth discusses how to make hard choices, between two jobs or partners, or whether to have children, in an easy choice one is better that the other. ![]()
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