“In a moral dilemma where you lost something either way, making the choice would feel bad either way, so you could temporarily save yourself a little mental pain by refusing to decide.” From Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which I’m reading at hpmor.com. My solution is to make that dilemma more precise so that I will know which way I’d go. It nearly always requires more details than the creator of the hypothetical is willing to provide.
I am the webmaster of voluntaryist.com since I inherited it from the previous owner and friend of mine, Carl Watner. It seems to me that coercion is the single most deleterious strategy that humans have, and yet it’s the one on which we rely on a regular basis to create and maintain social cohesion. If we want to minimize suffering, creating suffering is something we should avoid. Coercion is basically a promise to create suffering. I seek people who can defend coercion so that I can learn to see things more accurately, or help others do so.
“In a moral dilemma where you lost something either way, making the choice would feel bad either way, so you could temporarily save yourself a little mental pain by refusing to decide.” From Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which I’m reading at hpmor.com. My solution is to make that dilemma more precise so that I will know which way I’d go. It nearly always requires more details than the creator of the hypothetical is willing to provide.
I am the webmaster of voluntaryist.com since I inherited it from the previous owner and friend of mine, Carl Watner. It seems to me that coercion is the single most deleterious strategy that humans have, and yet it’s the one on which we rely on a regular basis to create and maintain social cohesion. If we want to minimize suffering, creating suffering is something we should avoid. Coercion is basically a promise to create suffering. I seek people who can defend coercion so that I can learn to see things more accurately, or help others do so.
I give some arguments for self-coercion in this post:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HDHqvf9vMqSXEBCLh/would-most-people-benefit-from-being-less-coercive-to