The second paragraph really hits on the nose how I feel, without having ever been able to put it into words—regarding both eating less animal products and recycling.
And offsets too FWIW. Something about avoiding doing something bad makes me feel like a good person, in a way that doing something bad and then making up for it by doing something good just doesn’t.
I’m not sure if the two events are just too far apart in time, or if my EA/rational side just kicks in and I can’t feel good about donating to offset a particular thing instead of to the most effective thing. Or maybe I just can’t emotionally get over my sense of “can’t undo the bad thing”.
The second paragraph really hits on the nose how I feel, without having ever been able to put it into words—regarding both eating less animal products and recycling.
And offsets too FWIW. Something about avoiding doing something bad makes me feel like a good person, in a way that doing something bad and then making up for it by doing something good just doesn’t.
I’m not sure if the two events are just too far apart in time, or if my EA/rational side just kicks in and I can’t feel good about donating to offset a particular thing instead of to the most effective thing. Or maybe I just can’t emotionally get over my sense of “can’t undo the bad thing”.