I think that is very situation dependent, and if help is indeed asked for later, that is a separate event whose virtue has to be judged separately. It's a very generic observation, not a critique. Any choice you make now might cause future choices with different virtue calculus.
I’m very wary of competence as virtue. I’m fairly competent at surviving but I’m under no illusions about the difficulty level of the version of the ‘survival problem’ I face. I couldn’t handle the chicken farmer problem probably.
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I think awareness of how easy/hard you’ve had it is essential prerequisite to judging whether others are acting more or less virtuously than you. I suspect someone like me is average in survivability but above average in luck. So I discount appropriately.
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Agree. But this should be coupled to paying attention to people who took an obviously harder path. Yet people like immigrants commonly get discounted. People simply aren't asking "how" to do things. They are grasping for why they can't.
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