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by lupire 1446 days ago
You would enjoy Peter Singer's writing. You are killing children by not donating your wealth to help them.
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I'm not convinced that's wrong, it's just that we need to accept we can't always act 100% in the best way for humanity. Rather than try to convince ourselves that our actions are somehow moral I think we need to accept we act out of selfishness sometimes and deal with that internally, otherwise we end up crafting philosophies saying that the hoarding of massive wealth is somehow moral just to try and stop the cognitive dissonance.
This seems to me to be the logical conclusion of the "you must pull" framework.
Yes, but the escape valve to it is accepting that you're not a moral person all, or even most of the time.