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My decision-making phenomenology used to be extremely fucky in a way that I expect to be shared between most rats: deciding was VERY HARD because one wrong decision might make EVERYTHING BAD FOREVER them. No slack at all. Just BIG BAD. This came out in multiple ways:
Decisions felt like an epistemological matter. There just *was* a best decision, it was discoverable, I could discover and execute it. Now I think they come out to conviction and commitment. A phenomenological move where you CHOOSE to make the world a certain way.
I was really really confused and not ok with judgement calls. I HAD to find 100% certainty, not just a best guess/effort. Now I think judgement beats discovered best route: it's not certain, just best effort, I'll never know if it was right, merely hope so…
@nosilverv right = the objective fact of the matter about which act would have done best measured against your theory of morality/rationality praise worthy = the act which made the most sense to do given what you could reasonably know in the situation
@nosilverv you help an old lady cross the street, but a car swerved and hits her the act ended up being wrong (assuming some consequentialist bent) but praiseworthy bc you a) had no reason to know that would happen and b) you want to encourage more acts *of that sort*