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  • Effective Altruism
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

    EA est la suprême perversion de l’étique capitaliste. Saint Max s’est accouplé avec Trans-Fantomas et là ils sont en train d’élever leur bâtard utilitariste. Pour eux l’homme n’a de valeur que celle inscrite dans les livres de compte de la corporation quitte à l’echanger contre un picasso ou une centaine d’employés indiens toujours moins chers.

    C’est l’étique des demi-dieux super-capitalistes qui ne voient le bien absolu que dans leur propre idées et intérêts. En comparaison les chef de mes grand pères nazis étaient des types sympas qui se souciaient vraiment du bien aller de l’humanité (suivant leur définition).

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    EA aims to emphasize impartial reasoning in that everyone’s well-being counts equally.  Singer, in his 1972 essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” [51], wrote:

    It makes no moral difference whether the person I can help is a neighbor’s child ten yards away from me or a Bengali whose name I shall never know, ten thousand miles away ... The moral point of view requires us to look beyond the interests of our own society.[51]: 231–232 

    The drowning child analogy in Singer’s essay provoked philosophical debate. In response to a version of Singer’s drowning child analogy,[52] philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah in 2006 asked whether the most effective action of a man in an expensive suit, confronted with a drowning child, would not be to save the child and ruin his suit—but rather, sell the suit and donate the proceeds to charity.[53][54] Appiah believed that he “should save the drowning child and ruin my suit”.[53] In a 2015 debate, when presented with a similar scenario of either saving a child from a burning building or saving a Picasso painting to sell and donate the proceeds to charity, MacAskill responded that the effective altruist should save and sell the Picasso.[55] Psychologist Alan Jern called MacAskill’s choice “unnatural, even distasteful, to many people”, although Jern concluded that effective altruism raises questions “worth asking”.[56]
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    51 - Singer, Peter (Spring 1972). “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”. Philosophy and Public Affairs. 1 (3): 229–243. JSTOR 2265052. The essay was republished in book form in 2016 with a new preface and two extra essays by Singer: Singer, Peter (2016). Famine, Affluence, and Morality. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190219208. OCLC 907446001.

    52 - Zwolinski, Matt (August 24, 2015). “Why Wouldn’t You Save a Drowning Child?”. Foundation for Economic Education.

    53 - Appiah, Kwame Anthony (2006). Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. Issues of Our Time. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 158–162. ISBN 0393061558. OCLC 61445790. https://archive.org/details/cosmopolitanisme0000appi_v9i3

    https://archive.org/details/cosmopolitanisme0000appi_v9i3/page/158/mode/1up
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    54 - Mclauchlan, Danyl (April 8, 2019). “In search of a way to do good that amounts to more than feeling good”. The Spinoff. Retrieved December 19, 2022. https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/08-04-2019/in-search-of-a-way-to-do-good-that-amounts-to-more-than-feeling-good

    55 - Effective Altruism: A Better Way to Lead an Ethical Life. Intelligence Squared. November 30, 2015. Event occurs at 21:05. Retrieved January 23, 2022 – via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qslo4-DpzPs&t=1265s

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    56 - Jern, Alan (October 13, 2020). “Effective altruism is logical, but too unnatural to catch on”. Psyche.co. Retrieved January 23, 2022. https://psyche.co/ideas/effective-altruism-is-logical-but-too-unnatural-to-catch-on