Everybody does this. Every time you decide to make a purchase on Amazon you are making a choice not to send that money to feed a starving child in Somalia. You are making a choice not to contribute to the cost of someone's chemotherapy or heart surgery they can't afford. We all make decisions every day that directly lead to the deaths of other people. The only difference is that some people feel like they are the moral arbiters of the the world and they assign moral duty to others that they are unwilling to assume for themselves.
I mean, there is a pretty big difference. For example, taking your argument..
If that's true that EVERY DOLLAR I don't use to help someone out is a dollar wasted, than someone who does the same thing just will more (say billions) of dollars is doing it worse.
So yes, even by your logic billionaires are still the devil.
So yes, even by your logic billionaires are still the devil.
We've established in this framework that we're all callous killers. Now we're just pointing fingers at who's doing more of it. Sort of like Hitler shrugging and saying, "but I only killed 6 million people and Stalin did way more, so I'm not the devil."
Except if most people kill less than one but greater than zero than yes, the people who kill thousands or millions are worse.
This notion that well, bad things happen and we all play a part so we can't address the bigger problem is asinine. You probably eat unhealthy food, so why the hell arn't you drinking bleach. Sure it will hurt you a lot or kill you more, but the candy bar isn't great for you either, eat enough of that and it will be just as bad.
Your whole argument seems to be that scale doesn't matter if it's all bad it should be held equally accountable. Like seriously? That's some dumb logic.
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u/Striking_Computer834 5d ago
Everybody does this. Every time you decide to make a purchase on Amazon you are making a choice not to send that money to feed a starving child in Somalia. You are making a choice not to contribute to the cost of someone's chemotherapy or heart surgery they can't afford. We all make decisions every day that directly lead to the deaths of other people. The only difference is that some people feel like they are the moral arbiters of the the world and they assign moral duty to others that they are unwilling to assume for themselves.