As with many statements people make about people in EA, I think youâve identified something that is true about humans in general.
I think it applies less to the average person in EA than to the average human. I think people in EA are more morally scrupulous and prone to feeling guilty/âinsufficiently moral than the average person, and I suspect you would agree with me given other things youâve written. (But let me know if thatâs wrong!)
I find statements of the type âsometimes we are Xâ to be largely uninformative when âXâ is a part of human nature.
Compare âsometimes people in EA are materialistic and want to buy too many nice things for themselves; EA has a materialism problemâ â Iâm sure there are people in EA like this, and perhaps this condition could be a âproblemâ for them. But I donât think people would learn very much about EA from the aforementioned statements, because they are also true of almost every group of people.
As with many statements people make about people in EA, I think youâve identified something that is true about humans in general.
I think it applies less to the average person in EA than to the average human. I think people in EA are more morally scrupulous and prone to feeling guilty/âinsufficiently moral than the average person, and I suspect you would agree with me given other things youâve written. (But let me know if thatâs wrong!)
I find statements of the type âsometimes we are Xâ to be largely uninformative when âXâ is a part of human nature.
Compare âsometimes people in EA are materialistic and want to buy too many nice things for themselves; EA has a materialism problemâ â Iâm sure there are people in EA like this, and perhaps this condition could be a âproblemâ for them. But I donât think people would learn very much about EA from the aforementioned statements, because they are also true of almost every group of people.