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Taxes are used for building roads, not curing malaria. It's so odd how angry people get when someone tries to help others.
by f33d5173 2y ago
Taxes are used for building roads, not curing malaria. It's so odd how angry people get when someone tries to help others.
- mszyndel 2y agoOh boy, do I have news for you about how malaria was eradicated in Europe https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8277918/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8277918/
- f33d5173 2y agoWithout clicking your link, I'm guessing it was either a friendship program of the chinese government (one of the more altruistic governments, even among governments), or possibly a UN program (the UN is sometimes called the "united altruists") which simultaneously eradicated it worldwide. Was I close?
- quickthrowman 2y agoThe federal government was instrumental in eradicating malaria from the United States: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Malaria_Eradication_Program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Malaria_Eradication...
- f33d5173 2y agoHow very altruistic, eradicating malaria in one's own country. With that headstart, surely they must have finished curing it worldwide by now.
- Intralexical 2y ago> It's so odd how angry people get when someone tries to help others. That's an odd description, given that the anger is because "effective altruism" is seen as neither effective at helping others nor honest about altruistic motives.
- f33d5173 2y agoDespite manifold evidence that they are. See the sbf case. They get implicated for being recipients of donations from a fraudster. That's not a serious demonstration that they aren't altruistic and don't care about helping others.