But they never even try to argue that EA support for “the very social structures that cause suffering” does more harm than good. As indicated by the “thereby”, they seem to take the mere fact of complicity to suffice for “undermining its efforst to ‘do the most good’.”
I agree that they’re talking about the way that EA principles are “actualized”. They’re empirically actualized in ways that involve complicity with suboptimal institutions. And the way these authors argue, they take this fact to suffice for critique. I’m pointing out that this fact doesn’t suffice. They need to further show that the complicity does more harm than good.
But they never even try to argue that EA support for “the very social structures that cause suffering” does more harm than good. As indicated by the “thereby”, they seem to take the mere fact of complicity to suffice for “undermining its efforst to ‘do the most good’.”
I agree that they’re talking about the way that EA principles are “actualized”. They’re empirically actualized in ways that involve complicity with suboptimal institutions. And the way these authors argue, they take this fact to suffice for critique. I’m pointing out that this fact doesn’t suffice. They need to further show that the complicity does more harm than good.