Whether or not I personally act in the morally best way is irrelevant to the truth of the moral principles we’ve been discussing. Even if I’m hypocritical as you claim, that wouldn’t make it okay for you to keep buying meat.
This quote made me think of the various bad behaviors that we’ve seen within EA over the past few years. Although this quote is from a book about vegetarianism, the words “keep buying meat” could easily be substituted for some other behavior.
While publicity and marketing and optics all probably oppose this to a certain extent, I take some solace in the fact that some people behaving poorly doesn’t actually diminish the validity of the core principles. I suppose the pithy version would be something like “[PERSON] did [BAD THING]? Well, I’m going to keep buying bednets.”
This quote made me think of the various bad behaviors that we’ve seen within EA over the past few years. Although this quote is from a book about vegetarianism, the words “keep buying meat” could easily be substituted for some other behavior.
While publicity and marketing and optics all probably oppose this to a certain extent, I take some solace in the fact that some people behaving poorly doesn’t actually diminish the validity of the core principles. I suppose the pithy version would be something like “[PERSON] did [BAD THING]? Well, I’m going to keep buying bednets.”