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Every choice we make has an impact on the world around us. Sometimes that impact is very small, but it is still real. For example, we live on a planet with a limited amount of clean drinking water. This can make me wonder if using a service like ChatGPT uses resources that contribute, in even a tiny way, to water shortages in the future.
I also think about the things I buy. If I wear a T-shirt made in Malaysia, does that support unsafe working conditions or child labour? If someone is harmed in a factory that makes these clothes, do my purchases make me partly responsible?
These thoughts lead to a difficult question: if I am responsible for even a small part of many harms, such as being 0.001 percent responsible for the deaths of 1000 people through many small everyday actions, does that mean I have caused a death simply by living my life?
I wonder if it's my autism that makes me consider these things because to me it seems no one else does.
I always attributed such considerations to my ADHD because, well, with a neverending train of thoughts you're inevitably spending some time pondering this, but seeing how many auties share it, it was probanly only amplifying it I guess.
Still, it makes me sad how little folks care.
It might be.
I am surrounded by kind, decent people, but same. They don't think about, or engage in, these sorts of thoughts, and I try. They just shrug and say their little impact, isn't enough of an impact to try. Meanwhile, I am over here having a daily existential crisis about all the stupid packaging on my second hand jeans.