Summary
People definitely say that they have some hard choices. They think that hard choices are big and hard, it matters to them but they can't choose one because they are stupid.
However, the speaker who studies hard choices and is a philosopher, tells us that we shouldn't choose one because there is no best option. It means that we misunderstand hard choices but we have to choose one.
1) If you start with two things that are equally good, and you improve one of them, it now must be better than the other. This is not the case with options in hard choices.
2) You assume that the choice has a good answer that is greater or lesser or equal. However, the value of the choices can't be measured by something. She calls this "on a par"
3) In fact, the alternatives are in the same area and at the same level. It's very different in kind of value but you don't realize.
4) The choice means to create reasons for yourself and make yourself into the kind of person who you want to be. It's not dictated by reasons given to you. The reasons create to you like you became the authors of your own life.
In other words, How to make hard choices doesn't have the failure, because you can make yourself. In the space of hard choices where you get to exercise your normative power. The power creates reasons for yourself and makes yourself fit the reasons. You can decide your life by yourself. This is the answer on how to make hard choices. You can enjoy it.
Words in this story
normative / establishing, relating to
dictated / instruct, admonish, directprecious /adj/ valuable, costly, expensive
luxury /noun/ extravagance, magnificence, indulgence, comfort luxurious /adj/
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