We have this incompatibility in certain kinds of life-changing decisions or experiences more generally where there's an incompatibility between the cells. In some cases culturally we just don't do that you don't get a frontal lobotomy, for example. But then there are cases like choosing to have a child where there isn't a kind of dominant cultural narrative and so on. If we're what we leave it to the individual is the choice of whether or not to undergo a life-changing experience that's going to change also like what someone knows and understands or make you into a new kind of person then we're confronted with a decision problem. We lack the ability to make this the decision by ourselves
Philosopher and author L.A. Paul talks about her book Transformative Experience with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Paul explores the uncertainties that surround the transformative experiences that we choose and that happen to us without choosing. How should we think about the morality and personal impact of these kinds of experiences, especially when some decisions are very hard or impossible to reverse? Examples include becoming a vampire, having children, religion, and other life experiences and choices.