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1. parine+(OP)[view] [source] 2024-05-21 14:40:02
> I don’t think so. I’ve narrowed my comments specifically to Effective Altruists who are making utilitarian trade-offs to justify known moral wrongs.

Did you?

> Effective Altruists are just shitty utilitarians that never take into account all the myriad ways that unmoderated utilitarianism has horrific failure modes.

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2. ncalla+Wv[view] [source] 2024-05-21 17:09:07
>>parine+(OP)
Sure, I should’ve said I tried to or I intended to:

You can see another comment here, where I acknowledge I communicate badly, since I’ve had to clarify multiple times what I was intending: >>40424566

This is the paragraph that was intended to narrow what I was talking about:

> I will say, when EA are talking about where they want to donate their money with the most efficacy, I have no problem with it. When they start talking about the utility of committing crimes or other moral wrongs because the ends justify the means, I tend to start assuming they’re bad at morality and ethics.

That said, I definitely should’ve said “those Effective Altruists” in the first paragraph to more clearly communicate my intent.

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