Requiring a donation to TLYCS then pitting you against Singer seems like the most set up for failure anyone has ever been in history, but good luck all the same!
I'm immediately confused by what a consequentialist like Singer (or myself) would make of a formulation like "fair share". I definitely believe that anybody in a position to be reading this comment would be a much more moral person if they replaced a chunk of their marginally pleasurable consumption with donation to the world's most effective charities. But I can't see at all how "fairness" would apply. "Fair" only makes sense to me with regard to a specific process being unbiased in the ways it purports to be unbiased: a tennis match becomes unfair if one player can arbitrarily decide which balls are in or out; it doesn't become unfair if one player has a stronger serve than the other.
Requiring a donation to TLYCS then pitting you against Singer seems like the most set up for failure anyone has ever been in history, but good luck all the same!
I'm immediately confused by what a consequentialist like Singer (or myself) would make of a formulation like "fair share". I definitely believe that anybody in a position to be reading this comment would be a much more moral person if they replaced a chunk of their marginally pleasurable consumption with donation to the world's most effective charities. But I can't see at all how "fairness" would apply. "Fair" only makes sense to me with regard to a specific process being unbiased in the ways it purports to be unbiased: a tennis match becomes unfair if one player can arbitrarily decide which balls are in or out; it doesn't become unfair if one player has a stronger serve than the other.
Neat! I live in europe so the times just dont work for me sadly
Wish these were at a reasonable time for Euro timezones
Does your one donation, if you win, allow you to access all three debates, or do you have to donate three separate times?