Effective altruism, tithing, and a principle of progressive giving
ABSTRACTHow much should someone contribute to trying to prevent unnecessary deaths and severe hardships? MacAskill, Mogensen, and Ord propose tithing for most of the rich (as measured by income), which has been influential in the effective altruism community. My aim in this article is to contribute,...
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| description | ABSTRACTHow much should someone contribute to trying to prevent unnecessary deaths and severe hardships? MacAskill, Mogensen, and Ord propose tithing for most of the rich (as measured by income), which has been influential in the effective altruism community. My aim in this article is to contribute, through amending their proposal, to their important project of searching for a weak or very weak principle of sacrifice that would still revise upward how much money goes to the most effective organizations. I do so by presenting four objections to their argument based on demandingness, fairness, net wealth, and historical and contemporary injustices. Then, I show that a principle of progressive can overcome these objections and better fits the reasons MacAskill, Mogensen, and Ord give in favour of their principle than their proposed operationalization of tithing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-888e762c3de64f21b067eaaf69a96afe2023-08-29T20:37:41ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEthics & Global Politics1654-49511654-63692023-07-01163203410.1080/16544951.2023.2246257Effective altruism, tithing, and a principle of progressive givingEamon Aloyo0Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, Den Haag, The NetherlandsABSTRACTHow much should someone contribute to trying to prevent unnecessary deaths and severe hardships? MacAskill, Mogensen, and Ord propose tithing for most of the rich (as measured by income), which has been influential in the effective altruism community. My aim in this article is to contribute, through amending their proposal, to their important project of searching for a weak or very weak principle of sacrifice that would still revise upward how much money goes to the most effective organizations. I do so by presenting four objections to their argument based on demandingness, fairness, net wealth, and historical and contemporary injustices. Then, I show that a principle of progressive can overcome these objections and better fits the reasons MacAskill, Mogensen, and Ord give in favour of their principle than their proposed operationalization of tithing.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/16544951.2023.2246257Tithingeffective altruismprogressive givingPeter Singerover-demandingness objectionWilliam MacAskill |
| spellingShingle | Eamon Aloyo Effective altruism, tithing, and a principle of progressive giving Ethics & Global Politics Tithing effective altruism progressive giving Peter Singer over-demandingness objection William MacAskill |
| title | Effective altruism, tithing, and a principle of progressive giving |
| title_full | Effective altruism, tithing, and a principle of progressive giving |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Effective altruism, tithing, and a principle of progressive giving |
| title_short | Effective altruism, tithing, and a principle of progressive giving |
| title_sort | effective altruism tithing and a principle of progressive giving |
| topic | Tithing effective altruism progressive giving Peter Singer over-demandingness objection William MacAskill |
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