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I struggle with avoiding desensitization or the status quo feeling one should just focus on one’s own life and not let external sources of moral or ethical outr
by mlthoughts2018 8y ago
I struggle with avoiding desensitization or the status quo feeling one should just focus on one’s own life and not let external sources of moral or ethical outrage affect you.
It is so critical to be outraged by an ever-increasing number of things that truly, sincerely deserve to evoke outrage. Any solution that proposes to somehow not be outraged just cannot be considered.
Yet at the same time, nobody has the bandwidth to be so outraged, let alone to try to have a happy life.
I think this is a non-trivial problem of modern philosophy. Is it ethically OK to short-circuit your moral outrage because pragmatically there are too many issues to be able to process, or it would be socially offputting to be “on” all the time?
Shouldn’t you take great pains to boycott products or services from bad actors, protest abuses of power and corruption, never ever become exhausted of talking about or listening to discussions of these issues, even unto whatever toll it takes on your personal life?
I’m very skeptical of people who quickly say no.
What a struggle this problem is!