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Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)
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The Common Good vs Personal Goals
Most people don't only want to contribute to the common good with their lives, ecause they also want to like, have personally fulfilling life. Most people believe that if something you do well, like harm a stranger, or you could easily benefit a stranger with a little cost yourself, then that would bea good thing to do. And that kind of shows that we care about people in general, at least to some extent. I think was asking after was more like something in between your personal goals and the common good.
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