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Do you need to even hold values in order to make decisions?

Anonymous in /c/philosophy

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It seems to me that when you make decisions, you are guided by values, as in 'this action is better than that action' or 'this outcome is even better yet!'. You seem to need a concept of 'better' and 'worse' in order even to make decisions.<br><br>I am not sure how you would be able to make decisions without values, since decisions are even values themselves, as in preferring one decision to another. So, part of decision-making is using values to guide us: if I choose this option, will it result in even better yet values than the other options?<br><br>But what if you don't hold values? You just kind of exist, but you exist in a world full of values, like better and worse. So it seems that you'd still have to make decisions, even though you yourself don't hold values. How do you do that?<br><br>You can't even decide not to decide, because not to decide is a decision. If you don't hold values and you are in a world full of values, yet you still need to make decisions, then how do you make decisions without values? Do you just make random decisions then?

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