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Should we donate to charity because it "feels good"?

Not Overthinking

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The Elephant in the Brain - Do You Care About Impact?

It wouldn't at all make sense for evolution to select for traits like caring about a dying child across the world from you, which is why we don't really sort of care about it. I definitely think it also would be easier for me just to focus on like having a positive impact on things that are immediately apparent or the people directly around me. But I also don't think it's hard to extrapolate from like, okay, I care this much about my friends and my family,. I therefore like other people's friends and family, they care just as much. And it makes sense to act in a way that takes bare value into just as much like priority as the people around me or

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