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But you don't have to bear it alone. It's not as if one person has to care about everything (nor each single person has to care for all).
Maybe the multiplication (in the example the care for a single bird multiplied by the number of birds) should be followed by a division by the number of persons available to do the caring (possibly adjusted by the expected amount of individual caring).
That's one way for people to become religious.
I'm not sure what point is being made here. Distributing burdens is a part of any group, why is religion exceptional here?
Theory of mind, heh... :-)
The point is that if you actually believe in, say, Christianity (that is, you truly internally believe and not just go to church on Sundays so that neighbors don't look at you strangely), it's not your church community which shares your burden. It's Jesus who lifts this burden off your shoulders.
Ah, that's probably not what the parent meant then. What he was referring to was analogous to sharing your burden with the church community (or, in context, the effective altruism community).
Yes, of course. I pointed out another way through which you don't have to bear it alone.
Ah, I understand. Thanks for clearing up my confusion.