Here I would need you to note what that advice actually was. That way I could comment on its applicability given the existential parameters of my own life here and now. And the extent to which I have the option to act on it with respect to conflicting value judgments in the is/ought world.
Instead, you note this:
For example, someone might tell me that he has back pain and I suggest that he tries Yoga. If he comes back and says that he tried 4 classes over the span of a month it didn't help, then I know he took some action. Unfortunately it did not work.
If he says that he has back pain but he makes no mention of my Yoga suggestion, then I would suspect that for some reason Yoga does not interest him. I might suggest something else like Pilates or Feldenkreis.
This is embedded far more in the either/or world. Many do in fact suffer from back pain. And these methods have in fact been demonstrated to be effective in relieving that pain.
It can all be more or less measured if the options are pursued.
On the other hand, you could tell a woman that if she does not want to risk a possible unwanted pregnancy, she should avoid sex altogether. Or engage only in oral sex or anal sex or masturbation.
But if she chooses to engage in vaginal sex and practices safe sex and still becomes pregnant, is it rational/virtuous to abort the pregnancy?
How is that calculated with any degree of finality? What advice could someone like Moreno offer to her?
And after a while, I get tired and bored of hearing about it. That's especially true when it's a one way discussion of his problems. I would probably like some advice and sympathy about my problems. But if we constantly have to talk about his back pain, I don't get what I need out of the interaction.
What could be more discomfiting for a man or woman then to confront the question âhow ought one to live?â and come to conclude this:
If I am always of the opinion that 1] my own values are rooted in dasein and 2] that there are no objective values âIâ can reach, then every time I make one particular moral/political leap, I am admitting that I might have gone in the other directionâŚor that I might just as well have gone in the other direction. Then âIâ 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.
Since you are not drawn and quartered yourself when confronting conflicting goods in a No God world, I would not expect you to grasp just how discomfiting that frame of mind can be.
On the other hand, what if you come to embody it yourself?
Then you too could seek out possible remedies.