Rather, if my sympathy for her is not at least two orders of magnitude greater than it is for unknown Africans. I don’t mean that to sound moralistic—my sympathy for my cats really is greater, awful as that sounds.
For me, helping unknown Africans generally comes out of the utility budget, rather than the fuzzy budget. You may be different.
In any case, yes, it’s a question of amount-of-fuzziness per unit-of-money donated.
Rather, if my sympathy for her is not at least two orders of magnitude greater than it is for unknown Africans. I don’t mean that to sound moralistic—my sympathy for my cats really is greater, awful as that sounds.
For me, helping unknown Africans generally comes out of the utility budget, rather than the fuzzy budget. You may be different.
In any case, yes, it’s a question of amount-of-fuzziness per unit-of-money donated.