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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
That's all well and good. But the prioritization of caring for others is almost never done on a rational basis. Look at the extreme mismatch of fundraising vs need for various types of cancer. Sometimes you have to look at these thing from a standpoint of letting people feel good about helping versus utilitarian cost-benefit. It would be nice if were more rational about these things, but a lot of people won't engage at all if that's the case.
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Very true. I guess I just get really annoyed when a reasonable question of "why?" is shut down by a condescending answer "because it's the right thing to do!" or, worse, "because someone somewhere said so".
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