Once you decide on an action, try giving up the goal and materially unnecessary assumptions and check if action gut-feels valuable by itself.
Example:
Action: carry umbrella
Goal: stay dry
Unnecessary assumption: it is raining/will rain
Monkey say: Still fun to carry
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Ideal: all actions should be functionally unfixed like this to the extent possible
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Dunno why people complicate these things. I don’t think either Laozi or Heidegger used umbrella grade examples in talking about the Tao or being-and-time.
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Me 13 years ago, a qualified consequentialist: “The ends justify the means only if they [the ends] are first justifiable by themselves.”
Me now, a weirdified deontologist: The ends justify the means only if the means are first justifiable by themselves.
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