I strongly disagree that we should avoid doing a thing just because the optics/vibes of it might not be mainstream, or that it requires people to change what they’re doing.
I am also strongly against “we shouldn’t do this because it is culturally insensitive.” There are lots of cultural practices I find abhorrent (e.g., female genital mutilation). I don’t care if stopping it “offends” other people. Cultures are perfectly capable of promoting very bad practices.
This is not trying to do the most good with limited resources. This is “trying to do the most good with limited resources, subject to the constraint of not making some people angry or seeming too weird.”
(For what it’s worth, I voted fairly strongly on the side of spending on more on global health as opposed to animal welfare.)
I strongly disagree that we should avoid doing a thing just because the optics/vibes of it might not be mainstream, or that it requires people to change what they’re doing.
I am also strongly against “we shouldn’t do this because it is culturally insensitive.” There are lots of cultural practices I find abhorrent (e.g., female genital mutilation). I don’t care if stopping it “offends” other people. Cultures are perfectly capable of promoting very bad practices.
This is not trying to do the most good with limited resources. This is “trying to do the most good with limited resources, subject to the constraint of not making some people angry or seeming too weird.”
(For what it’s worth, I voted fairly strongly on the side of spending on more on global health as opposed to animal welfare.)