That paragraph does feel kind of confused to me, though it’s hard to be precise in lists of principles like this.
As jimrandomh says above, it is widely accepted in EA that time and location do not matter morally (well, moreso location, I think it’s actually pretty common for EAs to think that far future lives are worth less than present lives, though I don’t agree with this reasoning). But that clearly does not imply that all people count equally, given that there are many possible reasons for differing moral weights.
That paragraph does feel kind of confused to me, though it’s hard to be precise in lists of principles like this.
As jimrandomh says above, it is widely accepted in EA that time and location do not matter morally (well, moreso location, I think it’s actually pretty common for EAs to think that far future lives are worth less than present lives, though I don’t agree with this reasoning). But that clearly does not imply that all people count equally, given that there are many possible reasons for differing moral weights.