With that in mind, you should now list all the things you value in ranking order.
If you rank your goals, so that any amount of the first goal is better than any amount of the second goal etc., you might as well just ignore all but the first goal. What you need to do is figure out how much of each goal is equivalent. For example, the happiness the average person feels in a year equals the amount of beauty in Beethoven’s ninth symphony equals etc. If this is the case, neither happiness nor beauty is more important, but a given amount of happiness may be more important than a given amount of beauty or vice versa.
I agree with your second point, that one should be able to determine the value of incremental steps towards goal A in relation to incremental steps towards goal B, and every other goal, and vice versa. I will fix that, thanks for bringing it up!
If you rank your goals, so that any amount of the first goal is better than any amount of the second goal etc., you might as >well just ignore all but the first goal.
Ranking does not imply that. It only implies that I prefer one goal over another, not that coming 3% on the way to reaching that goal is more preferable to reaching 95% of the other. I prefer 0.5 litres strawberries to one honeydew melon for dessert. But I also prefer one half of a melon to one strawberry.
If you rank your goals, so that any amount of the first goal is better than any amount of the second goal etc., you might as well just ignore all but the first goal. What you need to do is figure out how much of each goal is equivalent. For example, the happiness the average person feels in a year equals the amount of beauty in Beethoven’s ninth symphony equals etc. If this is the case, neither happiness nor beauty is more important, but a given amount of happiness may be more important than a given amount of beauty or vice versa.
I agree with your second point, that one should be able to determine the value of incremental steps towards goal A in relation to incremental steps towards goal B, and every other goal, and vice versa. I will fix that, thanks for bringing it up!
Ranking does not imply that. It only implies that I prefer one goal over another, not that coming 3% on the way to reaching that goal is more preferable to reaching 95% of the other. I prefer 0.5 litres strawberries to one honeydew melon for dessert. But I also prefer one half of a melon to one strawberry.