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> people give direct to the prettiest/most entertaining/most harrowing channel Donors have always liked this sort of thing, that's why organizations invented "
by roywiggins 4y ago
> people give direct to the prettiest/most entertaining/most harrowing channel
Donors have always liked this sort of thing, that's why organizations invented "sponsor a child" to give people the experience of direct giving to particular recipients. Mediating it through an organization is probably fairer than this totally disintermediated giving (especially if, in reality, the money is pooled and spent on needy communities), but the impulse has always been there.
- hackerlight 4y agoIt's because our compassion evolved to respond to visual stimuli, not facts about sufferring. We should be cautiously skeptical and analytical about these things. Otherwise we get paradoxes like the monstrosity of factory farms, the produce of which we use to feed our pets that we love. The end result is mass scale harm and suffering if we rely on gut moral instincts and don't use reason.