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(I didn't RTFA.) > "It doesn't matter what I do -- If I don't do some particular evil, someone else will do that evil in my place" aka "I'm just one person, my
by philh 11y ago
(I didn't RTFA.)
> "It doesn't matter what I do -- If I don't do some particular evil, someone else will do that evil in my place" aka "I'm just one person, my vote is irrelevant"
These are different arguments. The second says, my actions don't have any effect. The first says, my actions affect the world, and also other people's actions, and their actions affect the world so as to cancel out the direct effects of my actions.
Reducing the first to the second misses a lot.