• myrmidex@belgae.social
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    22 hours ago

    It does, actually. Ice cream can put you at grave risk of brain freeze.

    Good point! Then again, I don’t think some flavors result in less brain freeze than others.

    Even breathing has downsides.

    True as well, every breath destroys lung cells.

    If you want to be philosophical about it, consider this: If there weren’t pros and cons, you wouldn’t be making a choice at all.

    This, however, I’m having a hard time to agree with. Come to think of it, I’m not even sure choice is something natural, but that will require some deeper investigation to ascertain. In a fictional natural state, when looking for a place to sleep, would a “family” really (have to) make a conscious choice between this cave and that one?

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      13 hours ago

      Good point! Then again, I don’t think some flavors result in less brain freeze than others.

      That doesn’t mean it’s not a “lesser evil” decision. If you have to choose between chocolate ice cream (with brain freeze) or black licorice (with brain freeze), that would still be a case of lesser evil (because black licorice is disgusting and gives brain freeze).

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      14 hours ago

      Thanks! To your last point, I see any meaningful choice as fundamentally deliberative. If competing actions have no discriminating features (over which to deliberate), e.g., by being equally bad or good, then your decision would be arbitrary. Acting at random isn’t a deliberative procedure (evaluative, judgment-oriented, rule-bounded, normative, moral, or praiseworthy) and therefore not a meaningful choice.