I’m in the hole emotionally only because I think it is reasonable to believe that this is true:
If I am always of the opinion that 1] my own values are rooted in dasein and 2] that there are no objective values “I” can reach, then every time I make one particular moral/political leap, I am admitting that I might have gone in the other direction…or that I might just as well have gone in the other direction. Then “I” begins to fracture and fragment to the point there is nothing able to actually keep it all together. At least not with respect to choosing sides morally and politically.
That’s a “frame of mind”. It’s a way of thinking about the world such that it motivates behaviors. And it is human behaviors that precipitate actual consequences.
But: Is it reasonable to believe that this is true? All I can do here is to ask others if it seems reasonable to them. And, if it does not, to suggest that we move on.
To this: “Okay, let’s bring it all down to earth by exploring the existential parameters of human interactions in which clashes occur as a result of value judgments out of sync.”
In three parts:
1] The part about conflicting goods
2] The part about dasein
3] The part about political economy
Depressives often use a lot of truth to justify problematic lifestyle choices, so do manics. Fixation on frames of mind is a pathology, or at least, it can be.
I’m not depressed. I’m not manic. I’m in a hole [derived philosophically] such that I believe “I” live in an essentially absurd and meaningless world that ends in oblivion.
Can I find a way to not think like this? Maybe. But I can’t just “will” myself to abandon what [here and now] seems reasonable to me.
As for the part about bravery, I don’t congratulate myself for having the “courage” to accept this brutally bleak assessment of the “human condition”. And its only appeal is that in rejecting objectivism as a frame of mind I am afforded considerably more options. Why? Because I don’t have to align my behaviors with the “right thing to do”.
But not believing that there actually is a right thing to do [and that “I” here is largely an existential contraption] has its own rather stark consequences.