Saturday 17 June 2017

Effective Altruism and individualism

The effective altruism movement ignores one of the most significant ways to do good: raising good children*. It pays to remember that ideas don't exist in a vacuum. They are shaped by the society they reside in and the same idea in different places can be very different indeed.

Further reading:
https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/having-children-as-effective-altruism/
http://effective-altruism.com/ea/66/parenthood_and_effective_altruism/

*It is possible that having children is not good. For the purpose of this argument, that is irrelevant. You can raise children without having them by adopting

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