Would it be moral or rational to try and save them from their own folly, or to write it up to personal choice instead?
We don’t need to hypothesize fantasy land; this is a real life question. People very often make bad decisions, and aren’t always warm to the idea of people telling them how to run their lives. It’s their choice, but they’ll still suffer from it.
Taboo the words ‘moral’ and ‘rational’. To the extent that you value preventing suffering, you have to want to change their behavior. There may be conflicting factors, or orthogonal factors that dominate, but that term is still there.
We don’t need to hypothesize fantasy land; this is a real life question. People very often make bad decisions, and aren’t always warm to the idea of people telling them how to run their lives. It’s their choice, but they’ll still suffer from it.
Taboo the words ‘moral’ and ‘rational’. To the extent that you value preventing suffering, you have to want to change their behavior. There may be conflicting factors, or orthogonal factors that dominate, but that term is still there.