This is the worst kind of anti-intellectual nonsense. Do something real? What does that even mean? Are malaria nets not real to you?
Instead of waving off the serious efforts of a large group of people to figure out how to do the most good in the world as "dick measuring", I would encourage you to consider why you find the idea of comparing different forms of altruism so abhorrent that you refuse to even consider it as anything other than a source of cheap jibes.
Perhaps you consider the lives of people in your community to be more valuable than others. Perhaps you are less concerned with the good you do than how good it makes you feel. Perhaps you believe that charity is only meaningful if aligned with some higher power.
All of those would be meaningful arguments, but instead all you've given is an invective against thinking. Why? What good could that possibly do?
Instead of waving off the serious efforts of a large group of people to figure out how to do the most good in the world as "dick measuring", I would encourage you to consider why you find the idea of comparing different forms of altruism so abhorrent that you refuse to even consider it as anything other than a source of cheap jibes.
Perhaps you consider the lives of people in your community to be more valuable than others. Perhaps you are less concerned with the good you do than how good it makes you feel. Perhaps you believe that charity is only meaningful if aligned with some higher power.
All of those would be meaningful arguments, but instead all you've given is an invective against thinking. Why? What good could that possibly do?