Moya is probably the most mystic person I know of, so nice to see that you already encountered her. :D
Here in the Forum, we really try to be nice and welcoming, if you follow along, I don’t see any reason this couldn’t work out. ;)
If you are open to suggestions, I want to recommend you looking into the Podcast Global Optimum from Daniel Gambacorta. He talks about how you can become a more effective altruist and has some good thinking about the pros and cons of different topics, for example the episode about how altruistic should you be?.
”[…] the decision to give to charity […] is not exactly rational.” Can you please explain?
Hi Felix, thanks for the recs! What I mean by giving to charity not being exactly rational, is that giving to charity doesn’t help one in any way. I think it makes more sense to be selfish than charitable, though there is a case where charity that improves ones community can be reasonable, since an improved community will impact your life.
And sure, one could argue the world is one big community, but I just don’t see how the money I give to Africa will help me in any way.
Which is perfectly fine, since I don’t think reason has a monopoly on truth. There are such things as moral facts, and morality is in many ways orthogonal to reason. For example, Josef Mengele’s problem was not a lack of reason, his was a sickness of the heart, which is a separate faculty that also discerns the truth.
Hi Carlos,
welcome to the Forum!
Moya is probably the most mystic person I know of, so nice to see that you already encountered her. :D
Here in the Forum, we really try to be nice and welcoming, if you follow along, I don’t see any reason this couldn’t work out. ;)
If you are open to suggestions, I want to recommend you looking into the Podcast Global Optimum from Daniel Gambacorta. He talks about how you can become a more effective altruist and has some good thinking about the pros and cons of different topics, for example the episode about how altruistic should you be?.
”[…] the decision to give to charity […] is not exactly rational.” Can you please explain?
With kind regards
Felix
Hi Felix, thanks for the recs! What I mean by giving to charity not being exactly rational, is that giving to charity doesn’t help one in any way. I think it makes more sense to be selfish than charitable, though there is a case where charity that improves ones community can be reasonable, since an improved community will impact your life.
And sure, one could argue the world is one big community, but I just don’t see how the money I give to Africa will help me in any way.
Which is perfectly fine, since I don’t think reason has a monopoly on truth. There are such things as moral facts, and morality is in many ways orthogonal to reason. For example, Josef Mengele’s problem was not a lack of reason, his was a sickness of the heart, which is a separate faculty that also discerns the truth.