Regret
Overthink
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The Epistemology of Regret
The philosopher Patty McQueen wrote an article in 2017 entitled, When Should We Regret? She argues that regret most of the time is irrational because if we made a decision in the past, it's probably because we had our reasons. And so for McQueen, we should never regret a past action or a past behavior if two conditions are met. One: Was the decision sort of rooted or grounded in who I was at that time and did it somehow reflect my personality in the grand scheme of things? If it did, then I'm good. The second one is, did my past self have sensible reasons that my past self could articulate at the time to justify the course of action taken?
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