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How to reconcile immediate suffering with future-focused ethics

Everyone talks about longtermism but I can't stop caring about the homeless guy I see every morning on my way to work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between present compassion and abstract optimization reveals the emotional cost of thinking beyond human scale.

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