I think you’re ignoring how much easier, more discrete, and more scalable an organ donation registration drive is than any of these examples.
Also, how many people have to learn CPR through a 4-hour certification for one of them to actually use it? I don’t know how favorably it actually compares to the lifesaving potential of spending a few minutes per person registering them to donate their organs.
I don’t know how good these things are compared to donor registration drives.
As I mentioned before, I’m not claiming that any of these examples are necessarily better! I’m just trying to gesture to the number of other options groups might have, and the fact that it would be good to see even very rough cost-benefit analyses for different options.
For example, organ donation registration drives are indeed easy, discrete, and scalable, but even if promoting legislation isn’t quite as good on those fronts, perhaps the expected impact is good enough to make it a better bet in some places and times.
CPR is rarely successful, especially when performed by non-professionals outside of a hospital, so I doubt it beats organ donation, but it’s a plausible thing a group could look into. Other first-aid-ish interventions seem more promising, and EA groups could even consider expanding into other “social intervention” areas (e.g. a workshop on when it makes sense to call 911 if you see someone who looks to be very ill/unconscious).
All of that said, I’d have no objection whatsoever to a group running a well-organized donor registration drive, for the reasons I noted in my first post.
I think you’re ignoring how much easier, more discrete, and more scalable an organ donation registration drive is than any of these examples.
Also, how many people have to learn CPR through a 4-hour certification for one of them to actually use it? I don’t know how favorably it actually compares to the lifesaving potential of spending a few minutes per person registering them to donate their organs.
As I mentioned before, I’m not claiming that any of these examples are necessarily better! I’m just trying to gesture to the number of other options groups might have, and the fact that it would be good to see even very rough cost-benefit analyses for different options.
For example, organ donation registration drives are indeed easy, discrete, and scalable, but even if promoting legislation isn’t quite as good on those fronts, perhaps the expected impact is good enough to make it a better bet in some places and times.
CPR is rarely successful, especially when performed by non-professionals outside of a hospital, so I doubt it beats organ donation, but it’s a plausible thing a group could look into. Other first-aid-ish interventions seem more promising, and EA groups could even consider expanding into other “social intervention” areas (e.g. a workshop on when it makes sense to call 911 if you see someone who looks to be very ill/unconscious).
All of that said, I’d have no objection whatsoever to a group running a well-organized donor registration drive, for the reasons I noted in my first post.