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[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

Precisely. It's easy to give oneself the moral high ground when the hill you choose to die on costs significantly less in time, effort and money. Helping real people is far too expensive but if you make yourself sound like a humanitarian by defending fictional people then that's pretty cost-effective.