“It’s easy to push the harm we do, or that we risk, outside of our zone of awareness; to live with, or to strive for, a false sense of purity, propped up by attention only to what can be readily seen, or to what registers, by the standards of everyday conscientiousness and social reproach, as “intentional.” ”
Small-animal deaths matter as much to me as whether I have an odd or uneven number of hairs on my head. Certainly, something I could pay attention to as an intellectual exercise, but it’s not something that naturally registers as being related to right or wrong action.
You should not claim that people are this way because they strive for a sense of “false purity”, though. This “sense of purity” (or a feeling desire for it, or feeling a lack of it) is simply not a universal human experience.
“It’s easy to push the harm we do, or that we risk, outside of our zone of awareness; to live with, or to strive for, a false sense of purity, propped up by attention only to what can be readily seen, or to what registers, by the standards of everyday conscientiousness and social reproach, as “intentional.” ”
Small-animal deaths matter as much to me as whether I have an odd or uneven number of hairs on my head.
Certainly, something I could pay attention to as an intellectual exercise, but it’s not something that naturally registers as being related to right or wrong action.
You should not claim that people are this way because they strive for a sense of “false purity”, though.
This “sense of purity” (or a feeling desire for it, or feeling a lack of it) is simply not a universal human experience.