On self-reflection, I just plain don’t care about people far away as much as those near to me. Parts of me think I should, but other parts aren’t swayed. The fact that a lot of the motivating stories for EA don’t address this at all is one of the reasons I don’t listen very closely to EA advice.
I am (somewhat) an altruist. And I strive to be effective at everything I undertake. But I’m not an EA, and I don’t really understand those who are.
Yep, that’s fine. I am not a moral prescriptivist who tells you what you have to care about.
I do think that you are probably going to change your mind on this at some point in the next millennium if we ever get to live that long, and I do have a bunch of arguments that feel relevant, but I don’t think it’s completely implausible you really don’t care.
I do think that not caring about how people are far away is pretty common, and building EA on that assumption seems fine. Not all clubs and institutions need to be justifiable to everyone.
On self-reflection, I just plain don’t care about people far away as much as those near to me. Parts of me think I should, but other parts aren’t swayed. The fact that a lot of the motivating stories for EA don’t address this at all is one of the reasons I don’t listen very closely to EA advice.
I am (somewhat) an altruist. And I strive to be effective at everything I undertake. But I’m not an EA, and I don’t really understand those who are.
Yep, that’s fine. I am not a moral prescriptivist who tells you what you have to care about.
I do think that you are probably going to change your mind on this at some point in the next millennium if we ever get to live that long, and I do have a bunch of arguments that feel relevant, but I don’t think it’s completely implausible you really don’t care.
I do think that not caring about how people are far away is pretty common, and building EA on that assumption seems fine. Not all clubs and institutions need to be justifiable to everyone.