Oh I think I see what you are arguing (that you should only care about whether or not eating meat is net good or net bad, theres no reason to factor in this other action of the donation offset)
Specifically then the two complaints may be:
You specify that $0 < E$ in your graph, where you are using E represent −1 * amount of badness. While in reality people are modelling $E$ as negative (where eating meat is instead being net good for the world)
People might instead think that doing E is ‘net evil’ but also desirable for them for another reason unrelated to that (maybe for some reason like ‘i also enjoy eating meat’). So here, if they only want to take net good actions while also eating meat, then they would offset it with donations. The story you outlined above arguing that ‘The concept of offsetting evil with good does not make sense’ misses that people might be willing to make such a tradeoff
I think I agree with what you are saying, and might be missing other reasons people are disagree voting
Oh I think I see what you are arguing (that you should only care about whether or not eating meat is net good or net bad, theres no reason to factor in this other action of the donation offset)
Specifically then the two complaints may be:
You specify that $0 < E$ in your graph, where you are using E represent −1 * amount of badness. While in reality people are modelling $E$ as negative (where eating meat is instead being net good for the world)
People might instead think that doing E is ‘net evil’ but also desirable for them for another reason unrelated to that (maybe for some reason like ‘i also enjoy eating meat’). So here, if they only want to take net good actions while also eating meat, then they would offset it with donations. The story you outlined above arguing that ‘The concept of offsetting evil with good does not make sense’ misses that people might be willing to make such a tradeoff
I think I agree with what you are saying, and might be missing other reasons people are disagree voting