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From the doctrinaire EA perspective, the positive EV of educating a million kids far enough exceeds the negative EV of a few of them being raped, maimed, or kil
by throwanem 3y ago
From the doctrinaire EA perspective, the positive EV of educating a million kids far enough exceeds the negative EV of a few of them being raped, maimed, or killed to make the enterprise worthwhile even if nothing is done to address abuse or neglect beyond ensuring it doesn't happen too much more often than now.
From the doctrinaire EA perspective, open discussion of such abuses could easily pose a sufficient risk of impacting the EV of the educational program that suppressing the victims' efforts to seek public justice becomes justifiable.
I am not an effective altruist because the philosophy is, in the most generous possible terms, totally incompetent to defend itself against moral failures of this type. Utilitarianism whether of the Singer stripe or otherwise shares the flaw.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago> open discussion of such abuses could easily pose a sufficient risk of impacting the EV of the educational program that suppressing the victims' efforts to seek public justice becomes justifiable This reads like something you'd see in a report form the Soviet equivalent of the Secret Service
- readthenotes1 3y agoHave to break a few eggs to make an omelette, right?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]