itâs so common in the EA world to say, if you donât believe in malaria nets, you must have an emotional problem.
Iâm not saying that.
The point I was trying to make was actually the oppositeâthat even for the âcold and calculatingâ EAs it can be emotionally difficult to choose the intervention (in this case malaria nets) which doesnât give you the âfuzziesâ or feeling of doing good that something else might.
I was trying to say that itâs normal to feel like some decisions are emotionally harder than others, and framings which focus on that may be likely to come across as dismissive of other peopleâs actions. (Of course, i didnât elaborate this in the original comment)
Malaria nets should not be this symbol where believing in them is a core part of the EA faith.
I donât make this claim in my commentâI am just using malaria nets as an example since you used it earlier, and itâs an accepted shorthand for âcommonly recommended effective interventionâ (but maybe we should just say thatâmaybe we shouldnât use the shorthand).
Iâm not saying that.
The point I was trying to make was actually the oppositeâthat even for the âcold and calculatingâ EAs it can be emotionally difficult to choose the intervention (in this case malaria nets) which doesnât give you the âfuzziesâ or feeling of doing good that something else might.
I was trying to say that itâs normal to feel like some decisions are emotionally harder than others, and framings which focus on that may be likely to come across as dismissive of other peopleâs actions. (Of course, i didnât elaborate this in the original comment)
I donât make this claim in my commentâI am just using malaria nets as an example since you used it earlier, and itâs an accepted shorthand for âcommonly recommended effective interventionâ (but maybe we should just say thatâmaybe we shouldnât use the shorthand).