The shared center — held across the tradition
The same money saves twenty lives or one, and which it does is findable.
The founding observation is about variance rather than generosity: interventions differ in cost-effectiveness by orders of magnitude, so the choice of where to give matters more than the decision to give.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Whether the far future outweighs everything happening now.
The longtermist argument is that the number of people who could exist dwarfs the number who do, so reducing existential risk beats treating malaria. It split the movement and the split has never closed.
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