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"[...] It is sadly thus that the very human impulse to help others [...] have been infused with logic so cold that even Mr. Spock would cringe upon hearing it.
by virtualritz 4y ago
"[...] It is sadly thus that the very human impulse to help others [...] have been infused with logic so cold that even Mr. Spock would cringe upon hearing it. One iteration of this tendency is in the idea of “effective altruism.” We believe a more accurate phrase for this concept is “defective altruism” and will therefore use that term for the remainder of this article."
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https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_elitist_philanthropy_of_so_called_effective_altruism# https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_elitist_philanthropy_of_...
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- kbelder 4y ago>We believe a more accurate phrase for this concept is “defective altruism” and will therefore use that term for the remainder of this article." How could anyone take an article that includes a sentence like that seriously?
- virtualritz 4y agoThat's a rather odd way to say you didn't actually read it. It's written like a paper and I quoted from "the abstract". To understand the conclusion in the abstract you obviously need to read the paper.