I like the last option (goodness + compromise), but want to add two notes:
1. It really seems like someone’s got to be doing some indulging (perhaps in moderation). Otherwise you’re only saving children from malaria so that they can save other children from malaria, and it all adds up to a disneyland w/ no children. (Or, I guess there are children, but they’re all working rather than enjoying the park.)
2. After watching Schindler’s List, I resolved not to be like him in the last scene, where he laments that he could have done just a little bit more. I want to get within an order of magnitude of the most good I could do. By analogy with computer science algorithms, I want it to have the right complexity class. If there are quick wins, or cheap buys, I want to take them. Worrying about every last ounce of goodness doesn’t seem like how I want to be.
I like the last option (goodness + compromise), but want to add two notes:
1. It really seems like someone’s got to be doing some indulging (perhaps in moderation). Otherwise you’re only saving children from malaria so that they can save other children from malaria, and it all adds up to a disneyland w/ no children. (Or, I guess there are children, but they’re all working rather than enjoying the park.)
2. After watching Schindler’s List, I resolved not to be like him in the last scene, where he laments that he could have done just a little bit more. I want to get within an order of magnitude of the most good I could do. By analogy with computer science algorithms, I want it to have the right complexity class. If there are quick wins, or cheap buys, I want to take them. Worrying about every last ounce of goodness doesn’t seem like how I want to be.