Big decisions in a person’s life often affect the preferences and standards of a good life which that person’s future self will develop after implementing her decision. This paper argues that in such cases the person might lack any reasons to choose one way rather than the other. Neither preference-based views nor happiness-based views of justified choice offer sufficient help here. The available options are not comparable in the relevant sense and there is no rational choice to make. Thus, ironically, in many of a person’s most important decisions the idea of that person’s good seems to have no application.

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什么对我最好？重大决策和世界间比较问题

一个人一生中的重大决定往往会影响到该人未来的自己在执行其决定后对美好生活的偏好和标准。本文认为，在这种情况下，该人可能没有任何理由选择一种方式而不是另一种方式。在此，基于偏好的观点和基于幸福的合理选择观点都没有提供足够的帮助。可用的选项在相关意义上没有可比性，也没有理性的选择。因此，具有讽刺意味的是，在一个人的许多最重要的决定中，这个人的好处的想法似乎没有应用。