It just seems to me that EA is not the sort of thing that can be “founded” by a couple of people. It’s like claiming that someone “founded” science or the enlightenment. By extension, it strikes me as inappropriate to credit someone as the “founder” of a local branch of EA, just as it would be inappropriate to credit someone for “founding” the French scientific movement or the German enlightenment movement.
why?
It just seems to me that EA is not the sort of thing that can be “founded” by a couple of people. It’s like claiming that someone “founded” science or the enlightenment. By extension, it strikes me as inappropriate to credit someone as the “founder” of a local branch of EA, just as it would be inappropriate to credit someone for “founding” the French scientific movement or the German enlightenment movement.