The OP doesn’t really demand rigor in the case of Ukraine. It doesn’t claim that we should shift our resources to Africa and away from Ukraine. It simply asks the question of whether we should.
I don’t even ask that question. I ask what kind of tradeoffs we should accept.
“I don’t think we should accept tradeoffs like 1,000,000 million Africans starving to rescue 100,000 Ukrainians but I also don’t think that this is what the tradeoffs are in reality” would be a valid answer.
My read on it is that the author probably thinks that such a rigor should be applied universally, not just in the case of Ukraine.
I do also believe that there should be fewer economic sanctions against Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. I believe that economic sanctions are generally imposed because of the belief that “action should be taken” and not any analysis about the actual consequences of the action.
I don’t even ask that question. I ask what kind of tradeoffs we should accept.
“I don’t think we should accept tradeoffs like 1,000,000 million Africans starving to rescue 100,000 Ukrainians but I also don’t think that this is what the tradeoffs are in reality” would be a valid answer.
I do also believe that there should be fewer economic sanctions against Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. I believe that economic sanctions are generally imposed because of the belief that “action should be taken” and not any analysis about the actual consequences of the action.