Vasco Grilo🔸 comments on Insecticide-treated nets significantly harm mosquitoes, but one can easily offset this?

[Vasco Grilo🔸]

The degree of offsetting is entirely based on tradeoff (maybe with some risk aversion under diff moral theories), but if you put that much into offsetting than it seems like you either have a major moral or epistemic disagreement with those that are donating in the first place.

I think you are right. In my mind, one’s marginal donations should always go towards their best donation option, and therefore small donors should just donate to their best donation option. This is in contrast with donating to one organisation for offsetting negative impacts on animals, and then simultaneously donate to other organisations.

While I’m here, I also wanted to thank you for writing this post. Super interesting, thoughtful, and I’ve shared with a bunch of people already!

Thanks for the kind words, and sharing the post around, Noah!