Sometimes I try to channel my anger at birth lotteries into motivation, along the lines of “someone who’d do a way better job than you in this situation is muscled out cuz they didn’t have the foresight to be born correctly, so you really owe it to them not to eff it up”, and the results are just as mixed as any “obligation” framing. Yet it seems more productive than convincing myself that that anger is actually the object level cause area, cuz if I did that I would just read the news all day about why outgroup is keeping us from making immigration policy less wrong and get zero done.
Sometimes I try to channel my anger at birth lotteries into motivation, along the lines of “someone who’d do a way better job than you in this situation is muscled out cuz they didn’t have the foresight to be born correctly, so you really owe it to them not to eff it up”, and the results are just as mixed as any “obligation” framing. Yet it seems more productive than convincing myself that that anger is actually the object level cause area, cuz if I did that I would just read the news all day about why outgroup is keeping us from making immigration policy less wrong and get zero done.