I donāt understand the relevance of the correlation claim. People who care nothing for animals wonāt do either. But that doesnāt show that there arenāt tradeoffs in how to use oneās moral efforts on the margins. (Perhaps youāre thinking of each choice as a binary: ādonate someā Y/āN + āgo veganā Y/āN? But donating isnāt binary. What matters is how much you donate, and my suggestion is that any significant effort spent towards adopting a vegan diet might be better spent on further increasing oneās donations. It depends on the details, of course. If you find adopting veganism super easy, like near-zero effort required, then great! Not much opportunity cost, then. But others may find that it requires more effort, which could be better used elsewhere.)
Ya, idk, I am just saying that the tradeoff framing feels unnatural. Or, like, maybe thatās one lens, but I donāt actually generally think in terms of tradeoffs b/āw my moral efforts.
Like, I get tired of various things ofc, but itās not usually just cleanly fungible b/āw different ethical actions I might plausibly take like that. To the extent it really does work this way for you or people you know on this particular tradeoff, then yep; I would say power to ya for the scope sensitivity.
I agree that the quantitative aspect of donation pushes towards even marginal internal tradeoffs here mattering and I donāt think I was really thinking about it as necessarily binary.
I donāt understand the relevance of the correlation claim. People who care nothing for animals wonāt do either. But that doesnāt show that there arenāt tradeoffs in how to use oneās moral efforts on the margins. (Perhaps youāre thinking of each choice as a binary: ādonate someā Y/āN + āgo veganā Y/āN? But donating isnāt binary. What matters is how much you donate, and my suggestion is that any significant effort spent towards adopting a vegan diet might be better spent on further increasing oneās donations. It depends on the details, of course. If you find adopting veganism super easy, like near-zero effort required, then great! Not much opportunity cost, then. But others may find that it requires more effort, which could be better used elsewhere.)
Ya, idk, I am just saying that the tradeoff framing feels unnatural. Or, like, maybe thatās one lens, but I donāt actually generally think in terms of tradeoffs b/āw my moral efforts.
Like, I get tired of various things ofc, but itās not usually just cleanly fungible b/āw different ethical actions I might plausibly take like that. To the extent it really does work this way for you or people you know on this particular tradeoff, then yep; I would say power to ya for the scope sensitivity.
I agree that the quantitative aspect of donation pushes towards even marginal internal tradeoffs here mattering and I donāt think I was really thinking about it as necessarily binary.