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Comment author: kalium 15 October 2013 05:37:34AM *  3 points [-]

You can make a precommitment to do only one or the other, but if you become vegetarian you don't actually lose the $8,000 and become unable to give it to MIRI. In this sense it is not a true tradeoff unless happiness and income are easily interconvertible for you.

Comment author: James_Miller 15 October 2013 04:30:19PM -1 points [-]

I have a limited desire to incur costs to help sentients who are neither my friends nor family. This limited desire creates a "true tradeoff".