This argument doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Is AMF hurting because by distributing bednets and preventing people from getting malaria, you are reducing the incentive to create a malaria vaccine since it would now be less good to create this vaccine.
I would potentially make this argument, I think many people would, but not because AMF is hurting the development of a malaria vaccine.
Most countries /w malaria got rid of it and they did it through other means, I’d leave it as an exercise to you for how AMF distributing malaria nets could prevent that from happening.
However, the important bit with AMF distributing malaria nets is that the cost to the individual is low and not permanent, on the whole most people working on the malaria nets projects probably came out of it better off in terms of their potential to engage with the world.
“Just do good” is an easy heuristic up until it runs against “just kill yourself” at which point I think we should actually do the utility calculation beyond the 1st degree effects, yes.
I would potentially make this argument, I think many people would, but not because AMF is hurting the development of a malaria vaccine.
Most countries /w malaria got rid of it and they did it through other means, I’d leave it as an exercise to you for how AMF distributing malaria nets could prevent that from happening.
However, the important bit with AMF distributing malaria nets is that the cost to the individual is low and not permanent, on the whole most people working on the malaria nets projects probably came out of it better off in terms of their potential to engage with the world.
“Just do good” is an easy heuristic up until it runs against “just kill yourself” at which point I think we should actually do the utility calculation beyond the 1st degree effects, yes.