“I don’t intend to dismiss the idea that we can all make somewhat better choices which will marginally nudge the world in the right direction, but your self-righteousness will not, in fact, save the world. Your choice to be a vegetarian, or not own a car, or stick a solar panel on your roof, doesn’t even necessarily mean that your actual contribution to destroying the world is particularly low relative to other people. You’ve probably made some other world destroying choices.”
— Atrios. We’re so used to thinking in terms of personal morality that the idea of a social morality, with its own rules and folkways, is alien to us.
(Source: eschatonblog.com)
