I’m also worried about finding the way through the complex causal chains from individual choices to large consequences. I get the feeling that we’re pretty lousy at this sort of thing, species-wise. maybe it’s easy to see that everyone ought to vote, that everyone ought to recycle, that everyone ought to go veggie (because of all the good consequences) but you can think all that and still say that it doesn’t matter if I vote or not, if I recycle or not, or if I eat a ham sandwhich or not (because an individual’s consequences don’t matter. Unless the stars line up, the same person gets elected whether I vote or not, etc.

There’s got to be a way to give up the feeling that my consequences don’t matter, without giving up on the importance of consequences for morality. Just not sure how yet.