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We're only allowed to talk about the fact that we are almost universally demonstrably evil by the standards of our own professed moral systems in a joking context.
Or the context of religion.
But the religion pretends to have a solution -- you do a ritual, and now you are magically less evil.
It depends on which religion -- apparently, Orthodox Judaism doesn't.
Could you expand on this? It's not clear to me how this is the case.
Rational charity and utilitarianism make it extremely hard to justify how much most of us spend on ourselves or on feel-good charities rather than high impact results like giving money to high impact charities.
This is actually one of my favorite conversational topics. People find it uncomfortable, but not in a "you're sinister" sort of way.
But yeah, not a great way to make friends.
I'd like to hear your reasoning for that. It's not obvious at all to me - unless you're talking about eating meat, in which case.. well, I'm still unsure how the equation works out.