Or concrete steps that we should take. I think one thing a lot of these critics think is that we shouldn’t be donating—we should be doing more direct work. We need to hear what work exactly that is.
I don’t get that criticism. I can always donate to help you do direct work. I don’t see any way to criticize donating per se other than through non-consequentialist reasoning.
Edit: Unless they’re criticizing the ratio of direct work to donations.
Or concrete steps that we should take. I think one thing a lot of these critics think is that we shouldn’t be donating—we should be doing more direct work. We need to hear what work exactly that is.
And often (with many honorable exceptions), why the critics aren’t doing that work...
I don’t get that criticism. I can always donate to help you do direct work. I don’t see any way to criticize donating per se other than through non-consequentialist reasoning.
Edit: Unless they’re criticizing the ratio of direct work to donations.
I think that’s usually what it is. But there’s usually no explicit argument for it.