Well, Jeff and I give about a third of our income, so I’d say we’re not Sunday Catholics but Sunday-Monday-and-part-of-Tuesday Catholics.
Seriously, though, I advocate that people do what will result in the most good, which is usually not to try for perfection. Dolores1984, you’ve said before that rather than fail at a high standard of helping you’d rather not help at all. (Correct me if that summary is wrong). I’d rather see people set a standard in keeping with their level of motivation, if that’s what will mean they take a stab at helping.
That’s fair. In my case, I think I’ve decided that, so long as we’re all going to be bad people, and value some human life much more than others, I’d rather care a lot about a few people than a little about a lot of people, and calibrate my charitable giving accordingly. It does not seem, in particular, less morally defensible, and it’s certainly more along the lines of what humans were built to do. To that end, I adopted a shelter cat who was about to be put down. My views may change slightly, however, when I am less thoroughly and completely broke.
Well, Jeff and I give about a third of our income, so I’d say we’re not Sunday Catholics but Sunday-Monday-and-part-of-Tuesday Catholics.
Seriously, though, I advocate that people do what will result in the most good, which is usually not to try for perfection. Dolores1984, you’ve said before that rather than fail at a high standard of helping you’d rather not help at all. (Correct me if that summary is wrong). I’d rather see people set a standard in keeping with their level of motivation, if that’s what will mean they take a stab at helping.
That’s fair. In my case, I think I’ve decided that, so long as we’re all going to be bad people, and value some human life much more than others, I’d rather care a lot about a few people than a little about a lot of people, and calibrate my charitable giving accordingly. It does not seem, in particular, less morally defensible, and it’s certainly more along the lines of what humans were built to do. To that end, I adopted a shelter cat who was about to be put down. My views may change slightly, however, when I am less thoroughly and completely broke.
Fallacy of grey much? We’re all going to be bad people, but some of us are going to be worse people than others.