Compromise Creates Values

Re:Compromise Creates Values by carapace on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:41AM (#36391591)

There's a simple algorithm, based on this idea, for eliciting your hierarchy of values. IIRC it goes something like this:

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Imagine a mundane task of medium importance, e.g. brushing your teeth or doing the dishes.

Now imagine something comes up that interrupts that task, and it's important enough to make you stop doing the previous task and attend to the new thing.

Repeat previous step.

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I'm skipping over all the details, of course, but the point is that if you do it right you wind up with a ranked or graded list of values, motives for action.

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Re:Compromise Creates Values by nathan_compton on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:06PM (#36393577)

Nothing short of a threat to my life, the life of my kid, or my partner (or another person) would make me stop brushing my teeth. Maybe someone offering me a million dollars to stop right there and then. Certainly no mundane event. Brushing teeth is important.

[EDIT]: Ok, the exercise is working now. I take it back.

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