For cases where the equal weights are both ‘positive’ or ‘negative’, one can just ‘flip a coin’ (and notice any resistance to the outcome), and that’s what I’ve tried to learn to do, particularly for relatively small weights.
But for relatively large weights or, worse, for ‘opposing’ weights, i.e. one ‘positive’ and the other ‘negative’, like a situation where one has to choose between escaping some large negative element but ay the cost of giving up another large positive element simultaneously, this ‘akrasia’ can feel very much like being (emotionally or psychically) torn in two. Often then the relevant consideration is something like a threshold, e.g. is the large negative element too negative?
For cases where the equal weights are both ‘positive’ or ‘negative’, one can just ‘flip a coin’ (and notice any resistance to the outcome), and that’s what I’ve tried to learn to do, particularly for relatively small weights.
But for relatively large weights or, worse, for ‘opposing’ weights, i.e. one ‘positive’ and the other ‘negative’, like a situation where one has to choose between escaping some large negative element but ay the cost of giving up another large positive element simultaneously, this ‘akrasia’ can feel very much like being (emotionally or psychically) torn in two. Often then the relevant consideration is something like a threshold, e.g. is the large negative element too negative?