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Echarmion comments on The ethics of eating meat - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Echarmion 29 February 2016 06:46:28AM 0 points [-]

Doesn't intent matter? I cannot control the entirety of society with my will, nor can I control what animals I unknowingly kill, but I can react to the things I know with my own actions.

It also seems irrational to let the "better be the enemy of the good". There is no rule that says that unless I solve all the problems at once, solving one problem is being hypocritical. The single decision doesn't get irrational just because I am not actually making 100% rational decisions all the time. That would only be hypocritical if I claimed that all my decisions are 100% rational when they are not.