Everyone wants to live in a better world, but it’s very difficult to know how. Some people will tell you the problem is greed, we don’t help our neighbors, or are obsessed with materialism. But other people will tell you spirituality is part of the problem, local problems are a distraction from the big picture, and desiring things is what drives us to improve the world.
Getting everyone to believe one thing is impossible with all these different ideas of what is the right way to a better world. Everyone uniting on one belief is not even a good idea: if we all focus on one problem and one solution, we will suffer from all the other problems we left in order to focus on this one.
We have to try our best to navigate all these conflicting problems and solutions, and EA is a very good method at doing that. Trying harder to do right isn’t enough. (Most people already are trying to do right!) Maybe we could convince them to try harder. I want people to care more, and do more to make the world a better place, but I’m worried it’s hard to convince people to change their lives. I think a bigger problem is even when people try to do right, they don’t actually help achieve the things they want to.
Everyone wants to live in a better world, but it’s very difficult to know how. Some people will tell you the problem is greed, we don’t help our neighbors, or are obsessed with materialism. But other people will tell you spirituality is part of the problem, local problems are a distraction from the big picture, and desiring things is what drives us to improve the world.
Getting everyone to believe one thing is impossible with all these different ideas of what is the right way to a better world. Everyone uniting on one belief is not even a good idea: if we all focus on one problem and one solution, we will suffer from all the other problems we left in order to focus on this one.
We have to try our best to navigate all these conflicting problems and solutions, and EA is a very good method at doing that. Trying harder to do right isn’t enough. (Most people already are trying to do right!) Maybe we could convince them to try harder. I want people to care more, and do more to make the world a better place, but I’m worried it’s hard to convince people to change their lives. I think a bigger problem is even when people try to do right, they don’t actually help achieve the things they want to.