But the idea that a person in another country is equally worth caring about as a person in your country is a necessary premise for believing that that’s a way to do more good per dollar. Most people implicitly would rather help one homeless person in their city than 100 homeless people in another country.
It seems to me that “internationalism” would be seen as “a thing” precisely because nationalism is so strongly the default or status quo and nations often an unquestioned unit of organization (you could flip the frame of “internationalism is only a tool” to “nationalism is a tool” for doing things, good or otherwise, after all).
“internationalism” is only a tool towards a higher value of “doing more good [per dollar]”, at least to me
But the idea that a person in another country is equally worth caring about as a person in your country is a necessary premise for believing that that’s a way to do more good per dollar. Most people implicitly would rather help one homeless person in their city than 100 homeless people in another country.
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It seems to me that “internationalism” would be seen as “a thing” precisely because nationalism is so strongly the default or status quo and nations often an unquestioned unit of organization (you could flip the frame of “internationalism is only a tool” to “nationalism is a tool” for doing things, good or otherwise, after all).