Tell the audience that by donating to a highly effective charity, and in turn, greatly helping many people and making a large positive difference in their lives, they are thus, as donors in a relationship with every single person that they have helped. A relationship means a connection or association with another. Thus, if a donor in Britain, for example, pays for bed nets for a family in Uganda, saving one of the childrens’ lives, she has had more of an impact in that family than a close family friend, even though the family won’t know who the donor is. This is very emotionally powerful to recognize – by helping someone in a profound way, you are his “true friend” and have a strong relationship or bond with him, not figuratively, but literally. You are like his secret friend or protector and even if he doesn’t know who you are, you are still one of the most important persons in his life, there for him in his time of need.
And, of course, the more effective the charity donated to, the more people you’ll be in a relationship with! I think that thinking this way should combat scope insensitivity and domestic bias as well.
Tell the audience that by donating to a highly effective charity, and in turn, greatly helping many people and making a large positive difference in their lives, they are thus, as donors in a relationship with every single person that they have helped. A relationship means a connection or association with another. Thus, if a donor in Britain, for example, pays for bed nets for a family in Uganda, saving one of the childrens’ lives, she has had more of an impact in that family than a close family friend, even though the family won’t know who the donor is. This is very emotionally powerful to recognize – by helping someone in a profound way, you are his “true friend” and have a strong relationship or bond with him, not figuratively, but literally. You are like his secret friend or protector and even if he doesn’t know who you are, you are still one of the most important persons in his life, there for him in his time of need.
And, of course, the more effective the charity donated to, the more people you’ll be in a relationship with! I think that thinking this way should combat scope insensitivity and domestic bias as well.