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Mo­ral offsetting

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Moral offsetting (sometimes called ethical offsetting) is the practice of undoing wrongs caused in one area by donating to charities working in those areas or engaging in other relevant acts of altruism.

Further reading

Alexander, Scott (2015) Ethics offsets, Slate Star Codex, January 4.

Foerster, Thomas (2019) Moral offsetting, The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 69, pp. 617–635.

Foerster, Thomas (2019) Moral offsetting bibliography, Vacchablogga, March 3.

Levy, Neil (2015) Moral offsetting, Practical Ethics, January 7.

Zabel, Claire (2016) Ethical offsetting is antithetical to EA, Effective Altruism Forum, January 5.

Hedg­ing against deep and moral uncertainty

MichaelStJulesSep 12, 2020, 11:44 PM
83 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

Eth­i­cal offset­ting is an­ti­thet­i­cal to EA

ClaireZabelJan 5, 2016, 5:49 PM
48 points
78 comments3 min readEA link

Is offset­ting Co2 still a thing /​ a thing again?

André KirschnerApr 15, 2024, 8:56 PM
2 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Sim­ple char­i­ta­ble dona­tion app idea

kokotajlodMay 12, 2023, 2:11 AM
88 points
23 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How much money donated and to where (in the space of an­i­mal wellbe­ing) would “can­cel out” the harm from leas­ing a com­mer­cial build­ing to a restau­rant that pre­sum­ably uses fac­tory farmed an­i­mals?

spreadlove5683Aug 23, 2021, 7:53 PM
19 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

GiveWell may have made 1 billion dol­lars of harm­ful grants, and Am­bi­tious Im­pact in­cu­bated 8 harm­ful or­gani­sa­tions via in­creas­ing fac­tory-farm­ing?

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 22, 2024, 10:19 AM
96 points
108 comments9 min readEA link

Scott Alexan­der – Ax­iol­ogy, Mo­ral­ity, Law

Tessa A 🔸Aug 28, 2016, 3:00 PM
9 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

I donated $35 to offset my car­bon foot­print for this year

Luke EureDec 3, 2023, 9:46 AM
40 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

In­sec­ti­cide-treated nets sig­nifi­cantly harm mosquitoes, but one can eas­ily offset this?

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 3, 2025, 6:03 PM
28 points
41 comments7 min readEA link

Dona­tion offsets for ChatGPT Plus subscriptions

Jeffrey LadishMar 16, 2023, 11:11 PM
76 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

The moral prob­lem of offsetting

YatlasNov 15, 2022, 8:02 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Recom­men­da­tions for char­i­ties for an­i­mal suffer­ing offsets?

rajlegoAug 22, 2023, 2:35 PM
22 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Offset­ting is more ex­pen­sive than it’s assumed

emre kaplan🔸Feb 28, 2024, 9:16 AM
21 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is it eth­i­cal to work in AI “con­tent eval­u­a­tion”?

anon_databoy555Jan 30, 2025, 1:27 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Launch­ing 60,000,000,000 Chick­ens: A Give Well-Style CEA Spread­sheet for An­i­mal Welfare

AppliedDivinityStudiesJun 4, 2021, 9:08 PM
35 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

How can I in­ter­nal­ize my most im­pact­ful nega­tive ex­ter­nal­ities?

rhys_lindmarkJan 17, 2019, 5:38 AM
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Re­search help CO2 offset­ting/​com­pen­sa­tion pro­grams: How to eval­u­ate them for im­pact? Alter­na­tives to car­bon offset­ting? etc.

Marek VenenyApr 27, 2022, 8:24 AM
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some re­spon­si­bil­ity bun­dle bar­gains for medium-sized en­ter­prises?

brb243Jan 10, 2022, 7:38 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Covid offsets and car­bon offsets

BenJul 23, 2020, 9:19 PM
22 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The case for offset­ting meat consumption

Ariel PontesDec 8, 2022, 10:22 AM
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(arielpontes.medium.com)

Car­bon Offsets as an Non-Altru­is­tic Expense

DavidmanheimDec 3, 2019, 11:38 AM
25 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

How much dona­tions are needed to neu­tral­ise the an­nual x-risk foot­print of the mean hu­man?

Vasco Grilo🔸Sep 22, 2022, 6:41 AM
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Meat Externalities

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jul 11, 2022, 3:23 AM
80 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Don’t sweat diet?

Gregory Lewis🔸Oct 22, 2015, 8:15 PM
18 points
41 comments5 min readEA link

At what cost, car­nivory?

Gregory Lewis🔸Oct 29, 2015, 11:37 PM
13 points
13 comments15 min readEA link