And if he is still giving money to official EA causes, it should be loudly and swiftly returned.
In cases where a person has donated money they secured through crime, it seems right to reject it, but rejecting someone’s money because one doesn’t like their politics seems like a bad idea.
Suppose a hypothetical medicine-distribution charity that had been funded by Musk announced they would forgo accepting his future donations and would distribute fewer pills as a result. What exactly would this achieve? Maybe they would succeed in pleasing people who share their politics, but their beneficiaries (the very people they are supposed to help) would suffer.
I personally think it would be good if people who’s politics I dislike donated more to EA causes.
In cases where a person has donated money they secured through crime, it seems right to reject it, but rejecting someone’s money because one doesn’t like their politics seems like a bad idea.
Suppose a hypothetical medicine-distribution charity that had been funded by Musk announced they would forgo accepting his future donations and would distribute fewer pills as a result. What exactly would this achieve? Maybe they would succeed in pleasing people who share their politics, but their beneficiaries (the very people they are supposed to help) would suffer.
I personally think it would be good if people who’s politics I dislike donated more to EA causes.
You are right—I wrote in anger and take that part back (have edited above).