
Is Effective Altruism Right? #2: Dylan Matthews
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The Importance of Altruism in Political Movements
I want to ask if effective altruism verges on being religious. There are some qualities of kind of like the amount that a religion like grabs your life, and revolutionary politics almost gets to the place of a religion too. I think it's not an accident that a lot of well, McCaskell's book is about this guy Benjamin Lay, who was like an early Quaker reformer abolitionist women's rights activist.
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