Are you imagining this being taught to children in a philosophy class along topics like virtue ethics etc, or do you think that “scope-sensitive beneficententrism” should be taught just as students are taught the golden rule and not to bully one another?
I think there could be ways of doing both. But yeah, I think the core idea of “it’s good to actively help people, and helping more is better than helping less” should be a core component of civic virtue that’s taught as plain commonsense wisdom alongside “racism is bad”, etc.
Are you imagining this being taught to children in a philosophy class along topics like virtue ethics etc, or do you think that “scope-sensitive beneficententrism” should be taught just as students are taught the golden rule and not to bully one another?
I think there could be ways of doing both. But yeah, I think the core idea of “it’s good to actively help people, and helping more is better than helping less” should be a core component of civic virtue that’s taught as plain commonsense wisdom alongside “racism is bad”, etc.