I don’t follow the logic of the argument, but at first sight it seems scary. Suppose a really hate my ex-girlfriend. In fact, I hate her so much that I want to kill her. I am even willing to pay $6000 to an assassin to do the job. But instead I kill her myself and give the 6000 dollars to SCI to save a life. (I can even steal all her money after I killed her and give it away to effective charities)
“If you would happily pay this much (in my case, $6000) to kill someone, you probably shouldn’t abstain from killing that person.”
If this is how effective altruists would defend their meat consumption, it will discredit the whole idea of effective altruism.
I don’t follow the logic of the argument, but at first sight it seems scary. Suppose a really hate my ex-girlfriend. In fact, I hate her so much that I want to kill her. I am even willing to pay $6000 to an assassin to do the job. But instead I kill her myself and give the 6000 dollars to SCI to save a life. (I can even steal all her money after I killed her and give it away to effective charities) “If you would happily pay this much (in my case, $6000) to kill someone, you probably shouldn’t abstain from killing that person.” If this is how effective altruists would defend their meat consumption, it will discredit the whole idea of effective altruism.