How Philosophy Can Solve Any Problem

[@asdzocker]

If it comes to "real" philosophy, i.e. Kant and so on, I tend to borrow mine together from multiple different ways, which might not work together at the first glance, but seem to work for me. I'm borrowing from Kant with his "What you don't want to be done to you" stuff, but can't quite go along with all the "do not consider the followings". In this point, I tend to go for a more utilitaristic way, as "what is the best for the most". In everyday life though, it is more about "Can I afford it, to help? Then I will" and by "afford" I don't mean money, but time, effort, level of annoyance that might result to me, level of additional stress, stuff like that. Most of the time I come to the conclusion that I can afford to help. Additional, it is (nowadays) very hard to get me angry on someone particular (except for stupid drivers :D) which saves me a huge amount of emotional pain and stress and discomfort. On the other hand one can be sure, if they got me angry at them (in person, again traffic situations excluded), that it might last a bit, and I might not be as friendly with them for quite some time. Maybe I'm just very good at suppressing emotions (not just bad ones though) but either way, it is nothing I do at will (at least no more, guess it was when it started)

[@MacArthurLloyd]

Well said indeed! I love Kant, and you're so right that it is a process as we age...eventually we begin to consider the "costs" of our attachments a bit more!