I submit that any attempt to reduce your humanity to a math problem is ultimately going to give perverse results. Why give money to children in foreign countrie

I submit that any attempt to reduce your humanity to a math problem is ultimately going to give perverse results. Why give money to children in foreign countries and save 10,000 lives when I can contribute to the creation of technology that could save the lives of countless future human beings? Instead of that, why not give my money to Elon to help ensure we eventually develop an extraterrestrial and (possibly even extrasolar) colonization capability which will help ensure the survival of humanity as a whole? Oh, I know, I'll build a company that exploits its workers and consumers in order to amass a fortune that I can ultimately use to further that goal! The part of your mind that does this kind of logic or math based reasoning is very useful, but there's a reason our minds aren't entirely rational. Rationality is a tool we use, it is not us and it is not the end-all be-all way of understanding and interacting with our reality.