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Good for him. However I feel bad it seems like a misplaced sense of personal guilt over being an effective altruist compelled him to do this. Many empathetic pe
by atleastoptimal 3y ago
Good for him. However I feel bad it seems like a misplaced sense of personal guilt over being an effective altruist compelled him to do this. Many empathetic people worry far much over the slight possibility they are a bad person even though they're miles away from one. Evil, psychopathic people never worry about being a bad person at all, and can sleep soundly even in perfect understanding of the deliberate suffering they've caused.
- sadtoot 3y agothere's a lot of suffering in the world, and it doesn't matter too much to me who's fault it is (in the case of kidney failure, is it anyone's fault?). for me, morality isn't about avoiding being evil, or being better than my peers, it's just about increasing the amount of good in the world; particularly doing so if it's not too costly or inconvenient to me