These two factors may partly explain why EAs are disproportionately consequentialist, but I’m not convinced they’re the main explanation. I don’t know what that explanation is...
I would guess the simpler option that (virtually all actually supported) forms of consequentialism imply EA, whereas other moral theories, if they imply anything relevant at all, tend to imply it’s optional.
One exception to consequentialisms implying EA, for e.g. is Randian Objectivism. And I doubt it’s a coincidence that the EA movement contains a very small number of (I know of 0) Randian Objectivists ;)
I would guess the simpler option that (virtually all actually supported) forms of consequentialism imply EA, whereas other moral theories, if they imply anything relevant at all, tend to imply it’s optional.
One exception to consequentialisms implying EA, for e.g. is Randian Objectivism. And I doubt it’s a coincidence that the EA movement contains a very small number of (I know of 0) Randian Objectivists ;)