Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?
by zztop44 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:23PM
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That’s fine… but that’s _not the reason_, right? The reason is that you know the person and don’t want them to suffer. Trying to ignore that lived reality in a quest to be objective or rational seems to me like a recipe for mistaken thinking.
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Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?
by MichaelCollins on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:29PM
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It's not the reason, but it is a reason. The reason (for me) would be the principle of family coming first. But as is often the case, you can reconstruct deontological principles within a utilitarian framework.
For instance; if everybody sticks to the principle of murder being wrong despite the consequences, then there will be fewer misguided mass murderers, and this is better for society in the long run than everybody going around committing murders they believe to be justified by some end.