Our reason, unfortunately, is used exclusively to weigh this dilemma of pleasure and pain.
Talk to other people, get their opinions on the subject, and weigh the reasons they feel like they do.
These are the most common considerations when weighing the reasons for anonymity.
This, those who give their Votes before they hear the Debate, and have weighed the Reasons on all sides, are not capable of doing.
They weighed the reasons for seeking and for avoiding information, and found the reasons for being knowledgeable far more compelling.
In practical reasoning agents attempt to assess and weigh their reasons for action, the considerations that speak for and against alternative courses of action that are open to them.
After all, one cannot simply weigh agent-relative reasons against agent-neutral reasons, without stripping the former sorts of reasons of their distinctive character.
I weigh passion against reason.
Yet, in the realm of public morality it is necessary to weigh reason against sentiment, and to see how precedent and general policy will be affected by a particular and emotionally charged decision.
One can resist this move by arguing that while we are physical beings, most of us have the capacity to use reason to think about our options, to weigh reasons for and against them, and to choose these being the key abilities for being responsible agents who can deserve punishment if they choose to do wrong (Morse 2004).
There need not be a direct threat of Iranian first use against either the United States or Israel for this reason to weigh heavily.
