Hi Felix, thanks for the recs! What I mean by giving to charity not being exactly rational, is that giving to charity doesn’t help one in any way. I think it makes more sense to be selfish than charitable, though there is a case where charity that improves ones community can be reasonable, since an improved community will impact your life.
And sure, one could argue the world is one big community, but I just don’t see how the money I give to Africa will help me in any way.
Which is perfectly fine, since I don’t think reason has a monopoly on truth. There are such things as moral facts, and morality is in many ways orthogonal to reason. For example, Josef Mengele’s problem was not a lack of reason, his was a sickness of the heart, which is a separate faculty that also discerns the truth.
Hi Felix, thanks for the recs! What I mean by giving to charity not being exactly rational, is that giving to charity doesn’t help one in any way. I think it makes more sense to be selfish than charitable, though there is a case where charity that improves ones community can be reasonable, since an improved community will impact your life.
And sure, one could argue the world is one big community, but I just don’t see how the money I give to Africa will help me in any way.
Which is perfectly fine, since I don’t think reason has a monopoly on truth. There are such things as moral facts, and morality is in many ways orthogonal to reason. For example, Josef Mengele’s problem was not a lack of reason, his was a sickness of the heart, which is a separate faculty that also discerns the truth.