I think it is worth at least a few hours of every person’s time to help people during a war and humanitarian crisis.
I don’t think this is true, and I don’t see an a priori reason to expect cause prioritization research to result in that conclusion. I also find it a little weird how often people make this sort of generalized argument for focusing on this particular conflict, when such a generalized statement should apply equally well to many more conflicts that are much more neglected and lower salience but where people rarely make this sort of argument (it feels like some sort of selective invocation of a generalizable principle).
I don’t think this is true, and I don’t see an a priori reason to expect cause prioritization research to result in that conclusion. I also find it a little weird how often people make this sort of generalized argument for focusing on this particular conflict, when such a generalized statement should apply equally well to many more conflicts that are much more neglected and lower salience but where people rarely make this sort of argument (it feels like some sort of selective invocation of a generalizable principle).
That makes sense, I now think I made this statement too general.
In the case of the Israel-Hamas war, how would you decide if it’s worth a few hours to help?