“I’ve previously discussed my concerns about the obstacles to changing one’s mind about cause prioritization, and I can imagine ethical offsetting at the cause area level being used to remind oneself about various causes of suffering in the world and the organizations working to stop them. This could make it easier to change one’s mind about what’s most effective. It seems somewhat plausible that offsetting would help make the community better at updating and better informed.”
This has roughly been my reasoning for considering donating small sums to Animal suffering as a cause area and Climate Change as a cause area. (Though I haven’t done so yet.) I think it helps people to keep an open mind and am therefore happy to see them offsetting their ‘wrong’ behaviour.
“I’ve previously discussed my concerns about the obstacles to changing one’s mind about cause prioritization, and I can imagine ethical offsetting at the cause area level being used to remind oneself about various causes of suffering in the world and the organizations working to stop them. This could make it easier to change one’s mind about what’s most effective. It seems somewhat plausible that offsetting would help make the community better at updating and better informed.”
This has roughly been my reasoning for considering donating small sums to Animal suffering as a cause area and Climate Change as a cause area. (Though I haven’t done so yet.) I think it helps people to keep an open mind and am therefore happy to see them offsetting their ‘wrong’ behaviour.
I agree with Ryan’s and Linch’s comments as well.