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If you subscribe to Peter Singer's views on consequentialism, we all have a moral duty to spend our life maximizing the number of people we save from dying or from immense suffering. Hard to do that if you're not being productive; though I'll be the first to admit nobody does or can live with perfect adherence to that principle

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That’s a crazy ascetic view of life. Also completely unrelated to almost anyone on this forum, since it’s unlikely most here are doing any work that saves anyone’s life

Theoretically, I guess telling HN people they should be out saving lives could save lives.

To his credit, Peter Singer actually is a crazy ascetic.

Taleb would be proud.

I mean, you work to make money, and you can donate that money to all kinds of charities that do save lives.

Just as a productive person sleeps, so too do productive people take leisure. Someone who never sleeps is not maximizing the number saved from dying.

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