“I find the idea that a person has any responsibility whatsoever to donate to $EA_CHARITY baffling.”
“Donating to $EA_CHARITY is not obviously net harm reducing. Their work may funge against other efforts. And even if they do perfect work, solving poverty in the developing world still leaves developed-world poverty as a major problem.”
“The person reading your comment could be almost broke, such that if they donate to $EA_CHARITY they would homeless and destitute. It is unreasonable for us to ask anyone to take that sacrifice.”
“Other charities which claim to solve the problem $EA_CHARITY works on have been found to be scams. Don’t be surprised if they sell your credit card details to cybercriminals.”
“People have the right to choose how much they give.”
These are all valid replies I agree with partially or fully.
But they all seem to operate under the assumption that I hold a much different position than the one I actually hold. I’m not totally sure what I did to give people the mistaken impression.
Maybe I just need to learn to avoid triggering people.
In any case, I think you and I agree more than we disagree.
Hi Monica, thanks for the reply.
Suppose my original comment was
And I got these replies:
“I find the idea that a person has any responsibility whatsoever to donate to $EA_CHARITY baffling.”
“Donating to $EA_CHARITY is not obviously net harm reducing. Their work may funge against other efforts. And even if they do perfect work, solving poverty in the developing world still leaves developed-world poverty as a major problem.”
“The person reading your comment could be almost broke, such that if they donate to $EA_CHARITY they would homeless and destitute. It is unreasonable for us to ask anyone to take that sacrifice.”
“Other charities which claim to solve the problem $EA_CHARITY works on have been found to be scams. Don’t be surprised if they sell your credit card details to cybercriminals.”
“People have the right to choose how much they give.”
These are all valid replies I agree with partially or fully.
But they all seem to operate under the assumption that I hold a much different position than the one I actually hold. I’m not totally sure what I did to give people the mistaken impression.
Maybe I just need to learn to avoid triggering people.
In any case, I think you and I agree more than we disagree.