I don’t know if I’d go as strong as the OP, but, I think you’re being the most pro-social if you have a sense of the scale of other things-worth-doing that aren’t in the news, and consciously checking how the current News Thing fits into that scale of importance.
(There can be a few different ways to think about importance, which this frame can be agnostic on. i.e. doesn’t have to be “global utilitarian in the classical sense”)
I don’t know if I’d go as strong as the OP, but, I think you’re being the most pro-social if you have a sense of the scale of other things-worth-doing that aren’t in the news, and consciously checking how the current News Thing fits into that scale of importance.
(There can be a few different ways to think about importance, which this frame can be agnostic on. i.e. doesn’t have to be “global utilitarian in the classical sense”)