People could be useful pillars or functionaries in a community, and losing those pillars would come at great cost to the community or group. Isn’t it reasonable for the group to weigh the cost to remove vs the cost to look the other way/ privately censure/ or warn with more leniency than someone less important (Positive and negative costs of looking the other way/ private censure/ lenient warnings all considered)?
My guess is this kind of calculus is happening at a half-conscious level, but it comes with feelings like “we can’t lose <person x>.”
And I...
It is unreasonable to assume equifinality of outcomes in all cases of intractable decisions. There are cases where your weightings of various factors result in satisfying value a while not satisfying value b with one decision, and the reverse being true with another decision. In those cases you will have to figure out which value you care more about. Perhaps justice, perhaps money, perhaps adventure, perhaps love.
Take the job in this city and split with my girlfriend or not?
Have kids or not?
Move to another country for new opportuni...
It is not fraud if it is per contract, and I believe the term to payout in case of suicide is normally well defined. Anyway, we should be able to find a better reason for poster above to choose to live and help than fine points of insurance contracts.
First pass attempt: Surely someone literally willing to die to save others can create a lot of good in life. The poster displays a high level of commitment, forethought, even creativity and willingness to bend systems to output what they want. The poster’s creativity, intellect, force o...
My understanding of ”Analysis Paralysis” is it originally meant inability to resolve a decision with equifinal outcomes. A manager actually does all the correct multi-factor optimizations, correctly applies values and there’s just no tie breaker.
My guess when this happens is that it sticks out in the brain as “that can’t be right. It just can’t not matter at all if we make play dough or oven mitts.” It’s pretty counterintuitive (at least to many) that such situations could really exist. So the stuckness probably comes from assuming one’s analysis is wr... (read more)