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I'm the same age as you. Personal autonomy, as in "I can do whatever the fuck I want whenever I want and not justify myself to anybody", is one of my biggest sources of happiness. I distinctly remember the jump in happiness that I felt when I moved away from my parents and started renting an apartment with a girlfriend. Some years later we broke up and I started living alone, and I got a big pleasant shock from that too (outweighing the pain of breakup and then some). What's more, the joy of autonomy doesn't seem to wear off for me, I still feel happy about it every day. YMMV.
If by any chance you'd like to become more self-supporting by finding a programming job, lately I've been getting more and more experience in advising people how to do that, so I can try to help out. (That also applies to everyone else reading this, of course.)
I'm the opposite. If I can delegate any decision to anyone, I will. I couldn't care less about personal autonomy.
Do you expect that that would continue to be true if you were in a situation where you had no choice but to accede to others' decisions?
Choosing to avoid making choices looks like personal autonomy to me.
Probably. If they went crazy with it, I'd eventually dislike it, but if they made the same choices I would have made, I'd be fine.
When other people do make choices for me, I won't try to find out how much they're willing to force the issue unless I'm planning on doing something else.
Does this apply to tasks as well as decisions (e.g. you don't care how the laundry is done as long as you don't have to be involved) or are you just really amenable to instruction?
I would also like people to do things for me if that's what you mean, but given that I have to do it myself, I'd prefer someone else tell me what to do.