The hole that revolves around the manner in which 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 “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.
…seems reasonable to me.
Thus when I am confronted with a context in which values come into conflict, I recognize that my own values are largely derived existentially from the life that I lived. That had my life been very different I might now be espousing the opposite point of view. And that in regard to opposite points of view, both sides have reasonable arguments to make. There does not appear to be a way for philosophers to propose an optimal point of view.
Thus when I was a Marxist and a feminist, there was no doubt about it: abortion was the absolute political right of all women. Now, I am drawn and quartered by the arguments from both sides. And I recognize that had I not been drafted into the Army allowing me to meet men who profoundly reconfigured my very conservative views on abortion into very radical leftist views, I might easily have remained staunchly anti-abortion as a devout Christian.
Here all you can do with respect to an issue like abortion is to explain to me why you believe this.
How are your decisions not the embodiment of how I construe the “self” here? How do you deal with those reasonable arguments able to be made by both sides?
To wit: abortion.procon.org/
You tell me: which point of view is the most rational? Which narrative is most in sync with virtue?
You either believe that it is one over the other or a rendition of “you’re right from your side, I’m right from mine”
Then what? Then it’s who has the power to enforce their own moral agenda.
It’s not a question of what I would have happen, but how I have come to actually react to those who don’t share my own values. Values that, in any event, I have come to construe as an “existential contraption”.