There’s a sense of meaning and purpose to devoting yourself to world improvement: you never have to worry about ennui, about the sense that you’ll die without having any sort of impact on the world, that there’s no reason you’re alive.
I dislike this point, perhaps because it faintly promotes using utilitarianism to suppress normal human feelings. I think a healthier approach is to accept these feelings without obsessing over them. Additionally, the thought “Well, these are problems for other people, but not for me thanks to being a dedicate!” reminds me of blind faith, escapism, avoiding the least convenient possible world, and once-and-for-allism.
Dedicates don’t have bullshit jobs.
I think the same can be said for many non-dedicates.
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I dislike this point, perhaps because it faintly promotes using utilitarianism to suppress normal human feelings. I think a healthier approach is to accept these feelings without obsessing over them. Additionally, the thought “Well, these are problems for other people, but not for me thanks to being a dedicate!” reminds me of blind faith, escapism, avoiding the least convenient possible world, and once-and-for-allism.
I think the same can be said for many non-dedicates.