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Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social |
There's definitely a trap we can fall into where we say "If I accept the premise that ordinary people doing X can make the world better, it must also mean that ordinary people who aren't doing X—or worse, are doing not-X—are making the world worse." But that's not the case. (1/2)
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Micah McCurdy
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The trap comes from the insecurity which demands immediate moral clarity about ourselves, a level of clarity which is denied to all mortals.
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Angus Johnston
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It's not the case morally, it's not the case logically, it's not the case empirically, and it's not a useful fiction that makes the world a better place. Most of us are doing what we can, where we can. Some is visible, some not. Some of it is at cross-purposes. Always we could be doing more. (2/3)
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