I’ve always wanted kids, biological or adopted. I see EA as a question of “how can we use our resources effectively to do good… for the resources we choose to allocate to doing good”.
Most people draw the line somewhere between what they want for themselves and what they want for the world. I believe kids will enrich my life and can be done in a way which still enables me to do a lot of good.
EA is instrumental. Effectiveness for what? What is the ultimate objective of the effectiveness? Happiness? Happiness for who? For the other only? For other and for myself? We should first locate our values and objectives and later, get it in a EA way. The World includes ourselves and other. Putting the other’s values or happiness before our own gets lack of value our life, and if our life have no value, why the other’s has?
Because I want to.
I’ve always wanted kids, biological or adopted. I see EA as a question of “how can we use our resources effectively to do good… for the resources we choose to allocate to doing good”.
Most people draw the line somewhere between what they want for themselves and what they want for the world. I believe kids will enrich my life and can be done in a way which still enables me to do a lot of good.
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EA is instrumental. Effectiveness for what? What is the ultimate objective of the effectiveness? Happiness? Happiness for who? For the other only? For other and for myself? We should first locate our values and objectives and later, get it in a EA way. The World includes ourselves and other. Putting the other’s values or happiness before our own gets lack of value our life, and if our life have no value, why the other’s has?