The only clear and decisive way out is to accept that your life should be maximally ethical. So you shouldn’t go around pursuing wanton acts of vice, but you should make whatever decisions are necessary to maximize your overall ethical productivity.
Most people who go vegetarian find its very very little effort to be 90% vegetarian after a year or so. To me this warns against the view that people will give extra because “they haven’t made the sacrifice of becoming veggie”. Very soon the sacrifice becomes a habit and the claim that charitable donations are affected becomes even less plausible.
I’d be interested to know if anyone has given more money because of this thread. I know that i’m more willing to eat diary products and have read others saying it made them happier eating meat.
The only clear and decisive way out is to accept that your life should be maximally ethical. So you shouldn’t go around pursuing wanton acts of vice, but you should make whatever decisions are necessary to maximize your overall ethical productivity.
Most people who go vegetarian find its very very little effort to be 90% vegetarian after a year or so. To me this warns against the view that people will give extra because “they haven’t made the sacrifice of becoming veggie”. Very soon the sacrifice becomes a habit and the claim that charitable donations are affected becomes even less plausible.
I’d be interested to know if anyone has given more money because of this thread. I know that i’m more willing to eat diary products and have read others saying it made them happier eating meat.