Thinking about this further, one concern I have with this post as well as Ollie’s comment is that I think people could unduly underrate the amount of good the average Westerner can actually do after reading it.
If you have a reasonably high salary or donate more than 10% (and assuming donations don’t become much less cost-effective) to AMF or similarly effective charities, you can save hundreds of lives over your lifetime. Saving one life via AMF is currently estimated to cost around only £2,500. If you only earn the average graduate salary forever and only donate 10%, you can still save dozens of lives.
For reference, Oskar Schindler saved 1200 lives and is now famous for it worldwide.
My words at someone’s funeral who saved dozens or even hundreds of lives would be a lot more laudatory than what was said about Dorothea.
Thinking about this further, one concern I have with this post as well as Ollie’s comment is that I think people could unduly underrate the amount of good the average Westerner can actually do after reading it.
If you have a reasonably high salary or donate more than 10% (and assuming donations don’t become much less cost-effective) to AMF or similarly effective charities, you can save hundreds of lives over your lifetime. Saving one life via AMF is currently estimated to cost around only £2,500. If you only earn the average graduate salary forever and only donate 10%, you can still save dozens of lives.
For reference, Oskar Schindler saved 1200 lives and is now famous for it worldwide.
My words at someone’s funeral who saved dozens or even hundreds of lives would be a lot more laudatory than what was said about Dorothea.