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Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact

80k After Hours

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The Importance of Moral Demandingness

Many of our listeners are sympathetic to moral theories that say we ought to be trying to do basically as much good as we can with, you know, the resource we have. And those views kind of take into their logical extreme end up being quite morally demanding. If you could be doing more good by donating more money, it's like hard to know when you can give yourself permission to stop. We want to sidestep out a kind of like rigid dogmatic approach to values and instead ask what would happen if I choose each of these things?

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