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It's a bit weird to bring ethics into this. Of course, your example is unethical, but "donating to Harvard" is.... unethical? I have a really hard time with tha
by irjustin 4y ago
It's a bit weird to bring ethics into this. Of course, your example is unethical, but "donating to Harvard" is.... unethical? I have a really hard time with that. Is doing the Ice Bucket challenge unethical?
The problem with ethics discussion is we like to boil it down to it binary, ethical vs unethical. And donating to Harvard is hard pressed to be unethical. It's just not ideal.
And that's what I dislike about Effective Altruism, is it shames people for "not doing the _most_ ideal thing", which in my eyes is a pretty poor belief system to take on.
I'm saying, we're human, it's okay just don't make the world net negative... i.e. don't do unethical things.
Ken Griffin didn't do a net-negative thing (he's done plenty of net negative/unethical things in the past). So, can we just call this a win and move on? Name and shame? I'm just happy he's not deploying that money to destroy more companies.