my personal consumption decisions just have such a tiny effect compared to my career/donation decisions that it feels like I shouldn’t pay much attention to their direct consequences
This isn’t an argument against veganism; it’s an argument against prioritizing veganism as a cause area. And EA isn’t prioritizing veganism as far as I can tell?
I worry it could be really easy for EA to become a community where people rationalize doing bad things on account of the fact that those things are just a little bit bad compared to all the good things they do.
This isn’t an argument against veganism; it’s an argument against prioritizing veganism as a cause area. And EA isn’t prioritizing veganism as far as I can tell?
I worry it could be really easy for EA to become a community where people rationalize doing bad things on account of the fact that those things are just a little bit bad compared to all the good things they do.
I really don’t want EA to become that.