“In our interview Claire explained that she attempted to minimise the role of emotion in her ethical decisions. In a different vein, she reported it was fairly common practise to use these emotional responses to stimulate themselves in particular directions—such as watching factory farming videos if they needed motivation. The perspective is dramatic, but is mirrored in much of the wider discourse; as Rubenstein points out EA thinking encourages ‘people in wealthy countries to think of themselves as heroes and rescuers’ (2016, p.520). Parit put it in perhaps the starkest terms as he said, ‘we decide who lives and who dies’. The small actions for the EAs are never just actions in and of themselves, but are parts of responses to an inexhaustible and radical ethical demand. The only limit, in ideological terms, is when they can give no more.”
“In our interview Claire explained that she attempted to minimise the role of emotion in her ethical decisions. In a different vein, she reported it was fairly common practise to use these emotional responses to stimulate themselves in particular directions—such as watching factory farming videos if they needed motivation. The perspective is dramatic, but is mirrored in much of the wider discourse; as Rubenstein points out EA thinking encourages ‘people in wealthy countries to think of themselves as heroes and rescuers’ (2016, p.520). Parit put it in perhaps the starkest terms as he said, ‘we decide who lives and who dies’. The small actions for the EAs are never just actions in and of themselves, but are parts of responses to an inexhaustible and radical ethical demand. The only limit, in ideological terms, is when they can give no more.”