I’m not sure assigning credit is a good way to think about this. Instead there are just decisions you can make, and you want to make the ones that most improve the world?
But Claire’s talking about moral accounting—which is a way of thinking about those decisions. In any one project etc. there’s more than one action or person who could have done something else and let it fall apart—so you can’t say its worth x me staying involved otherwise it wouldn’t have happened and all the other people doing the same and be consistent in your approach across opportunities—as maybe you could all individually have done x/​2 yourselves seperately but thought that keeping the project going was more important. To get past it with perfection you can factor in all the counter-factuals—but that’s often easier said than done!
I’m not sure assigning credit is a good way to think about this. Instead there are just decisions you can make, and you want to make the ones that most improve the world?
But Claire’s talking about moral accounting—which is a way of thinking about those decisions. In any one project etc. there’s more than one action or person who could have done something else and let it fall apart—so you can’t say its worth x me staying involved otherwise it wouldn’t have happened and all the other people doing the same and be consistent in your approach across opportunities—as maybe you could all individually have done x/​2 yourselves seperately but thought that keeping the project going was more important. To get past it with perfection you can factor in all the counter-factuals—but that’s often easier said than done!