Maybe like the distinction between personal health and public health. Clearly there will always be a tension.

Moral philosophy breaks my head.

There's just so much missing from tit-for-tat, reductionist, game theoretic treatments. Fairness, context, identity, values.

But I'm not smart enough to resolve or articulate my confusion.

So I settled on a personal moral philosophy for my daily reality:

"Help people help themselves; help those who can't."

I purposefully omit anything about mitigating cheating (punishing free loaders). Though it's important, I just don't have the bandwidth.