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Is There a Right Answer to Effective Altruism?
Buddhism's ultimate enlightened ethic is true dispassion with respect to friends and strangers, right? So the mind of the Buddha would be truly dispassionate. And by that light, it seems some kind of ethical failing or at least a failure of fully actualized compassion in the limit if you care more about your kids than others' children. I'm not sure what the right answer is there or even whether there is one right answer. There could be multiple peaks on this part of the moral landscape.