> A member of the "Effective Altruism" community however would likely say that person is being ineffective because kill shelters are a unfortunate necessity to

> A member of the "Effective Altruism" community however would likely say that person is being ineffective because kill shelters are a unfortunate necessity to make the numbers on pet adoption work out, and anyway they shouldn't be donating to animal welfare in the first place because the most effective way to be altruistic is to buy mosquito nets for poor tropic countries It's convenient that statements like this always come out just a few sentences into a critique of EA to helpfully reveal a complete ignorance of EA. You've evidently been exposed to a lot more contrarian handwringing about EA than to actual EA thought. This is like someone confidently criticizing Mormons' tradition of visiting Mecca. It just makes zero sense.