we think that people with better judgement are more deserving of shinies or whether we think that we're best at deciding what's good for us
Personally I want to make my own decisions because I believe that I am the ONLY one who has all the relevant information about *my internal state* especially about how I, personally, rank the various possible outcomes. Other people can tell me the % chance of the possible outcomes, or they can try to scare me by describing in vivid detail the possible outcomes (I hate when people do that, but maybe if you were ignorant of the true extent of the possible badness then it can be helpful). But other people can't know what I, personally, value.
When it comes to choosing on behalf of another person (your child, your elderly relative) then the question is much harder. Because presumably you are doing the choosing on account of that other person not being able to understand the incoming information, but you still have the problem with not being able to understand that person's own desires.
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Personally I want to make my own decisions because I believe that I am the ONLY one who has all the relevant information about *my internal state* especially about how I, personally, rank the various possible outcomes. Other people can tell me the % chance of the possible outcomes, or they can try to scare me by describing in vivid detail the possible outcomes (I hate when people do that, but maybe if you were ignorant of the true extent of the possible badness then it can be helpful). But other people can't know what I, personally, value.
When it comes to choosing on behalf of another person (your child, your elderly relative) then the question is much harder. Because presumably you are doing the choosing on account of that other person not being able to understand the incoming information, but you still have the problem with not being able to understand that person's own desires.