I think you’re right that Benjamin Lay, who we’re currently celebrating, would totally be banned from EA events and blacklisted by the Community Health Team.
The same would happen for most historical moral heroes, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr.
If a community that is trying to be morally ambitious would ban people who, in retrospect, are considered moral heroes, this should make us reconsider our current starndards and processes.
I appreciate the point, but I also think EA is unique among morality-movements. We hold to principles like rationality, cause prioritization, and asymmetric weapons, so I think it’d be prudent to exclude people if their behaviour overly threatens to loosen our commitment to them.
And I say this as a insect-mindfwl vegan who consistently and harshly denounces animal experimentation whenever I write about neuroscience[1] (frequently) in otherwise neutral contexts. Especially in neutral contexts.
I think you’re right that Benjamin Lay, who we’re currently celebrating, would totally be banned from EA events and blacklisted by the Community Health Team.
The same would happen for most historical moral heroes, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr.
If a community that is trying to be morally ambitious would ban people who, in retrospect, are considered moral heroes, this should make us reconsider our current starndards and processes.
I appreciate the point, but I also think EA is unique among morality-movements. We hold to principles like rationality, cause prioritization, and asymmetric weapons, so I think it’d be prudent to exclude people if their behaviour overly threatens to loosen our commitment to them.
And I say this as a insect-mindfwl vegan who consistently and harshly denounces animal experimentation whenever I write about neuroscience[1] (frequently) in otherwise neutral contexts. Especially in neutral contexts.
Evil experiments are ubiquitous in neuroscience btw.