Every so often this sort of thing happens to me—deep down I wonder if philosophy is much more interesting than it is useful! As you say I think trying to get a human (ie myself) to figure out how they make decisions and then act in a fully rational manner is a task that’s too difficult, or at least too for me.
However, what I come back to is that I don’t need to make things complicated to believe that donating to AMF or GiveDirectly is fundamentally a worthwhile activity.
Every so often this sort of thing happens to me—deep down I wonder if philosophy is much more interesting than it is useful! As you say I think trying to get a human (ie myself) to figure out how they make decisions and then act in a fully rational manner is a task that’s too difficult, or at least too for me.
However, what I come back to is that I don’t need to make things complicated to believe that donating to AMF or GiveDirectly is fundamentally a worthwhile activity.