People keep telling me I only deal in absolutes, and that it’s unhealthy and I should sometimes find the middle-ground between two different positions. (I.e. caring for myself vs others, putting all my energy on a task vs not even bothering)
So what’s the procedure to finding a middle-ground so I can apply it to literally everything in my life, as the Autistic Gods demand? \s
Oh man, it looks like you have an unstable equilibrium between two conflicting positions, if only there was some sort of philosophy to help you deal with that, some kind of “Twoalectics”
Ah, that thing developed by Georg Begel and Carl Marks!
That’s what I thought once I actually started understanding dialectics, but it’d be such a cognitive drain to do it all the time (see what I’m talking about?).
Feels like every 3 or so texts by Lenin that I read he says something like “our position depends on the conditions of the situation” and I don’t have that much brainpower to constantly analyse those conditions.
Yeah, this was a little tounge in cheek, but the general way to work with ethics is that you use the complex stuff to develop general rules to follow (or virtues to uphold if you want a more vibes based approach).
Obviously, there will be edge cases, and then you have to work out if it’s worth your time to solve from first principles or just eyeball it and hope for the best.