Comment by Noaidi

Yes, presumptions is all of have, it is all we have of anyone since we cannot get inside their heads. But his actions do reveal something, about which I can make assumptions. Even a hermit is known to be a hermit, so he is not ever alone in his hermitage. So he was even a fool thinking his actions would not be debated.

I read a bit about him after I read the article. He was a behavioral economist and he treated his life like a piece of capital. This is why I do not want economists running the world. And I also saw he had a lot of trauma in his life.

His thoughts: "Predicted utility is the predicted experienced utility for a future experience."

Did he see no predicted utility in his life? Should we adapt this to judge others lives or our own? Are we as great reasoners than him? But what kind of fool tries to measure, tries to quantify, happiness! Economics is not a science, and behavioral economics is just a cold psychology.

He evens seems not to be able to live up to his own words: "Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

But thank you for making me read more about him. It seems even his friends thought he was a pessimist, and who can blame him living through the holocaust.

Interesting that his son had schizophrenia, I have Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and think this is why it runs in my family. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26198764/)