Yeah, but there’s also a certain plausibility to the heuristic which says that you don’t get to second-guess her knowledge of what works for charitable giving until you’re—not giving more—but at least playing in the same order of magnitude as her. Maybe her pushing a little bit harder on that “hypocrisy” would cause her mind to collapse, and do you really want to second-guess her on that if she’s already doing more than an order of magnitude better than what your own mental setup permits?
I am actually inclined to believe Wise’s hypothesis (call it H) that being overly selfless can hamper one’s ability to help others. I was only objecting to army1987′s implicit argument that because she (Wise) clearly believes H, Dolores1984′s suspicion of H being a self-serving untrue argument is unwarranted.
There’s an Italian proverb “Everybody is a faggot with other people’s asses”, meaning more-or-less ’everyone is an idealist when talking about issues that don’t directly affect them/situations they have never experienced personally”.
Yeah, but there’s also a certain plausibility to the heuristic which says that you don’t get to second-guess her knowledge of what works for charitable giving until you’re—not giving more—but at least playing in the same order of magnitude as her. Maybe her pushing a little bit harder on that “hypocrisy” would cause her mind to collapse, and do you really want to second-guess her on that if she’s already doing more than an order of magnitude better than what your own mental setup permits?
I am actually inclined to believe Wise’s hypothesis (call it H) that being overly selfless can hamper one’s ability to help others. I was only objecting to army1987′s implicit argument that because she (Wise) clearly believes H, Dolores1984′s suspicion of H being a self-serving untrue argument is unwarranted.
There’s an Italian proverb “Everybody is a faggot with other people’s asses”, meaning more-or-less ’everyone is an idealist when talking about issues that don’t directly affect them/situations they have never experienced personally”.