I’m sorry Paul, I don’t think I quite follow your reasoning, so my response may not be wholly on point. But to explain why the suggested wording takes out that part, the reason is that although we would expect everyone signing the pledge to agree with the statement “I recognise that I can use part of my income to do a significant amount of good in the developing world”, it might be seen as duplicitous to have that in a cause neutral pledge. (I’m not convinced that’s the case, but I’m open to it.) The ‘beyond poverty’ wording is just a possible suggestion, I’d love to hear alternatives you think would be better. I assume your reason for disliking it is that it gives a flavour ‘going further than’ when what we really wanted was something like ‘other possible candidates for the most effective thing’ or something. This is something we’d put a bunch of thought into if we decided to change the pledge.
I’d be very grateful to hear any other comments you have on this. (I’ve been referring back to the email you sent over the summer, which has been useful, so don’t feel you need to replicate the material in that, but if you have other thoughts I’d love to hear them.)
I’m sorry Paul, I don’t think I quite follow your reasoning, so my response may not be wholly on point. But to explain why the suggested wording takes out that part, the reason is that although we would expect everyone signing the pledge to agree with the statement “I recognise that I can use part of my income to do a significant amount of good in the developing world”, it might be seen as duplicitous to have that in a cause neutral pledge. (I’m not convinced that’s the case, but I’m open to it.) The ‘beyond poverty’ wording is just a possible suggestion, I’d love to hear alternatives you think would be better. I assume your reason for disliking it is that it gives a flavour ‘going further than’ when what we really wanted was something like ‘other possible candidates for the most effective thing’ or something. This is something we’d put a bunch of thought into if we decided to change the pledge. I’d be very grateful to hear any other comments you have on this. (I’ve been referring back to the email you sent over the summer, which has been useful, so don’t feel you need to replicate the material in that, but if you have other thoughts I’d love to hear them.)
Whoever ‘disliked’ this post, I’d be interested to hear why. If it’s because I’ve misunderstood Paul’s point, apologies!