Yes, in some cases. Are those a minority, or a majority of the cases where you have to put your life into balance and decide if it’s worth being sacrificed for something, or having that thing sacrificed instead ?
It all hinges on your values too. Here it seemed like it was a given that one’s life was being considered as valuable, but that under some threshold, the probability of survival was too small to deserve a personal sacrifice (money, time, pleasure, energy, etc.). All of this from a personal standpoint, weighting personal, individual benefits, and individual costs. If all that is being considered is your own subjective enjoyment of life, then it still seems to me that any personal sacrifice is at most as undesirable as the loss of your life. And this calls into question, how much do we value our own personal enjoyment and life, when compared with other values such as other’s general well being ? In other words, how selfish and altruistic are we, both in which proportion, and in which cases ?
Yes, in some cases. Are those a minority, or a majority of the cases where you have to put your life into balance and decide if it’s worth being sacrificed for something, or having that thing sacrificed instead ?
It all hinges on your values too. Here it seemed like it was a given that one’s life was being considered as valuable, but that under some threshold, the probability of survival was too small to deserve a personal sacrifice (money, time, pleasure, energy, etc.). All of this from a personal standpoint, weighting personal, individual benefits, and individual costs. If all that is being considered is your own subjective enjoyment of life, then it still seems to me that any personal sacrifice is at most as undesirable as the loss of your life. And this calls into question, how much do we value our own personal enjoyment and life, when compared with other values such as other’s general well being ? In other words, how selfish and altruistic are we, both in which proportion, and in which cases ?