The idea behind EA is logically appealing and ostensibly simple. Devote your limited resources to the people and issues where those resources will objectively do the greatest good. Cost-benefit calculation to the rescue!
Smith’s Little Finger and a Temblor in China
Smith rightly asserts that earthquake victims half-way around the world have equal status and dignity as our own self or the person immediately next to us; progress in moral sentiments helps us appreciate this.
Smith does not expect this rootedness to be inverted, only that our extreme selfishness should be reduced. Our compassion and altruism are limited resources and choices must be made.
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