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everyone has a limit to how much they want to help. "The life you can save" makes a strong moral point that if you arent spending every penny to save the life o
by achenatx 6y ago
everyone has a limit to how much they want to help. "The life you can save" makes a strong moral point that if you arent spending every penny to save the life of a child that would die from an easily preventable disease (5000 children die in africa every single day from easily preventable diseases), you have chosen to value their life at less than your fancy dinner, movie, or luxury electronics.
Everyone makes those choices, even you. Be happy with your decision, but while you judge other people as "good germans" recognize that you are a good german too.
- ddevault 6y agoYou're right, of course, it's a spectrum. But, I addressed a similar comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080583 >There's a pretty damn big difference between throwing out $5 of food while someone across the Earth starves, and in directly making the software which opresses millions of people, raising millions of dollars for the people responsible, and pocketing huge salaries for yourself. Working for bigcorp as a software engineer is pretty long on that spectrum.