Overhead. Investments in the future. My question from yesterday generalizes: When should people use others' standards instead of their own to make decisions?
I think most people pick their standards in this way. 'Mine are platonic,' vs mine are aristotelian.' 'Mine are left wing,' vs 'mine are anarchistic.' Etc. But after this, they make the standards their own. They use them, alter them with experience, re-apply with intelligence. And hold out the result as what they believe in.
When then do they, should they, move beyond these standards entirely? Of course, some sets of standards might speak to this issue - mine do. Mine state that I should use another person's standards when I'm evaluating what they've done as successful or not. Did they succeed in doing what they wanted to? I need to know what their own expectations were before I can resolve this. This includes knowing what their own standard of success was / is.
I guess my question goes beyond this possibility for me though. When do / should people literally act against their own standards and according to some other set?
If two people I know are incompatible, and this includes one of them demanding that the other be treated in a certain way which I would not want to do normally, what do I do? Is this a general problem to be resolved in standards analysis? Or should I suspect this is a particular situation and that I ought to simply swim through it while ducking and weaving (as I have been doing so far).