Anonymous asked: The problem with unifying your circles of concern is that it seems to make people come up with absurd conclusions like it being a huge moral failure to take an airplane flight to visit one's parents for Christmas.
Huge moral failure? Nah, I prefer to save that for people who are doing things abnormally bad given their circumstances. Uses up carbon that will increase global warming which is at least a civilization-level threat? Yep. Although to be honest that’s a concern for even a purely selfish person, unless they are old enough that they can be confident of dying before global warming fucks us all up.
And tbh if your moral reasoning doesn’t produce conclusions that seem absurd on the face of it… why are you bothering? I want to be the sort of person who would have come up with the absurd conclusion that slavery is wrong, or the absurd conclusion that women should have rights, or the absurd conclusion that sodomy shouldn’t be illegal; therefore, right now, I am the sort of person who comes up with the absurd conclusions that eating meat is wrong, malaria net donations are morally mandatory, and global warming is really important.