As with many statements people make about people in EA, I think you’ve 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/insufficiently moral than the average person, and I suspect you would agree with me given other things you’ve written. (But let me know if that’s wrong!)
I find statements of the type “sometimes we are X” to be largely uninformative when “X” is a part of human nature.
Compare “sometimes people in EA are materialistic and want to buy too many nice things for themselves; EA has a materialism problem” — I’m sure there are people in EA like this, and perhaps this condition could be a “problem” for them. But I don’t think people would learn very much about EA from the aforementioned statements, because they are also true of almost every group of people.
I think EAs have a bit of an entitlement problem.
Sometimes we think that since we are good we can ignore the rules. Seems bad
As with many statements people make about people in EA, I think you’ve 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/insufficiently moral than the average person, and I suspect you would agree with me given other things you’ve written. (But let me know if that’s wrong!)
I find statements of the type “sometimes we are X” to be largely uninformative when “X” is a part of human nature.
Compare “sometimes people in EA are materialistic and want to buy too many nice things for themselves; EA has a materialism problem” — I’m sure there are people in EA like this, and perhaps this condition could be a “problem” for them. But I don’t think people would learn very much about EA from the aforementioned statements, because they are also true of almost every group of people.