I don’t see it as a priority. By following this road, the EA community is at risk of allienating half of humanity which feel conservative and might be great givers and have deep concern for doing good effectively, but feel almost the same urgency you feel about Trump about people on the other side of the spectrum.
Most importantly, this issue has a lot of attention already, so I don’t think making a stand from the EA community would make any significant difference.
So I see a great cost (losing conservative altruists for their lifetime) at almost no gain (adding your voice to a saturated debate).
I would freely vote and be vocal about my political ideas, those are part of your identity and important for your community, but I would prefer to leave EA out of it.
I don’t see it as a priority. By following this road, the EA community is at risk of allienating half of humanity which feel conservative and might be great givers and have deep concern for doing good effectively, but feel almost the same urgency you feel about Trump about people on the other side of the spectrum.
Most importantly, this issue has a lot of attention already, so I don’t think making a stand from the EA community would make any significant difference.
So I see a great cost (losing conservative altruists for their lifetime) at almost no gain (adding your voice to a saturated debate).
I would freely vote and be vocal about my political ideas, those are part of your identity and important for your community, but I would prefer to leave EA out of it.