Right -- gut morality is strongly based on small, local interactions. If someone invites you over for dinner and they have a live calf there, nursing at its mo

Right -- gut morality is strongly based on small, local interactions. If someone invites you over for dinner and they have a live calf there, nursing at its mother, and they're intending to slaughter it in front of you, it's not the same (to gut morality) as if they slaughtered it the day before, and really not the same as if they just bought some veal at the supermarket (i.e.: paid someone out of sight to do it). Likewise; buying something that was produced in a way that involved significant human misery and/or death feels awful to gut morality if the sweatshop, diamond mine, or whatever is next door. On the other side of the world? Eh... well this one is $6 cheaper... Why should it be so different? Well, gut morality isn't logical, at all. It's worth a bit of effort to do better.