In a world where it's impossible to make purely moral decisions in everything we do, we should all recognize where we're making trade-offs and not try to paint ourselves as being purely logical.

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• When two options are almost perfectly balanced the choice does not matter, and those are exactly the decisions people agonize over. GKGary Klein9 Aug 2022
• Thinking harder about a decision has diminishing returns because reality is inherently unknowable. NNNeel Nanda22 Feb 2022
• We should act on the assumption that we have almost no idea what the best futures would look like, so committing today to any particular vision would be a great mistake. WMWilliam MacAskill3 Aug 2025
• Working on how good the long-run future is does not require accepting consequentialism or believing that you should always maximise the good. WMWilliam MacAskill3 Aug 2025
• Letting one calculation take over a giving decision is disturbing, and there is still a strong case for it if you want your ethics to be principled and about other people. HKHolden Karnofsky15 Feb 2022

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