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You are not morally obliged to 'do something which costs me more and I dislike' just because you think 'you will help society more'.

You help society most by making your life as full as possible and in most cases that is related to how much you enjoy your job.

Not everybody is morally obliged to become a missionary: otherwise, there would be no 'missions' (all of us would be in the Third World preaching...).



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