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As much as a forum like this values traditional ideas of the rational mind, I've been reflecting a lot recently on whether or not this is truly the best way to go about things. More specifically, I began reading Notes from the Underground recently (I started 3 months ago and am 50 pages in). I came across a statement that I frequently find myself coming back to now and then.
... (read 1735 more words →)Twice two makes four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death"; - Fyodor
- If a dollar given to an organization has a sizeable probability of averting an enormous amount of suffering and averts an enormous amount of expected suffering, it’s very good to donate to the organization.
- A dollar given to the shrimp welfare project has a sizeable probability of averting an enormous amount of suffering and averts an enormous amount of expected suffering.
- So it’s very good to give to the shrimp welfare project.
Wouldn't it just be a lot more reasonable to only buy shrimp from farms that stun the shrimp before killing them? I could then save my dollar for a cause where I cannot just proceed to economically optimize for a fix. In the limit, this would save just as many shrimp and donate just as much to other causes that people find personally meaningful.