> I just meant that my reduced negative externalities will be produced instead by an opportunistic actor. I don't think this is true. Humans are deeply social

> I just meant that my reduced negative externalities will be produced instead by an opportunistic actor. I don't think this is true. Humans are deeply social and copy each other. One can easily see this with young humans, but I didn't fully appreciate this with adult humans before I saw it myself. When I turned semi-custom-vegan, I did hear that it is kind of pointless because animals will still be slaughtered for others. But even suprising to me it turned out that several of the people I interact with started to reduce their meat consumption as well. We aren't all egoistical ignorants that only think of their immediate benefit.