That’s pretty much it! If everyone in the world was set to die four minutes after I died, and this was just an immutable fact of the universe, then that would be super unfortunate, but oh well, I can’t do anything about it, so I shouldn’t really care that much. In the situation in which I more directly cause/choose, not only have I cut my and everyone else’s lives short to just a year, I also am directly responsible, and could have chosen to just not do that!
That’s pretty much it! If everyone in the world was set to die four minutes after I died, and this was just an immutable fact of the universe, then that would be super unfortunate, but oh well, I can’t do anything about it, so I shouldn’t really care that much. In the situation in which I more directly cause/choose, not only have I cut my and everyone else’s lives short to just a year, I also am directly responsible, and could have chosen to just not do that!