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Effective altruism is this century's biggest idea

9 points · 33 comments · Anon84

  1. amanaplanacanal · · focus · HN ↗
    The idea of spending your money where it will do the most good is a good one. The execution can certainly be bad, though. Good deeds don't make up for bad deeds, and we should have learned a long time ago that "the ends justify the means" usually leads to terrible things.
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