While reading Southan’s article a second time didn’t change my views on effective altruism, it allowed me to pick up on more subtle details in the text. I still find effective altruism much too radical for their own good and contradictory to their beliefs on increasing happiness. However it did increase my passion against the EA and changed my views on Southan himself. For starters, I noticed the belief of net positive calculations. It didn’t really hit me how ridiculous this idea was until now. It diminishes the value of peoples good deeds, because somewhere there is an imaginary person who’s good deeds negate yours. It sounds twisted to me to tell someone that only the good they achieve over this imaginary person actually counts. Second, the section comparing the EA to a utilitarian system were eerily similar. It seems like the only sacred thing to the EA is the lives they are saving. For me it sparked an image of a tyrannical society were the quality of life was of no concern. It seems like the EA has no respect to the quality of life of their workers, they just care about the money they bring in. Lastly, I really began to notice how Southan seems to react to the EA’s beliefs. As an artist I would have suspected him to push back against the EA’s beliefs. Instead it seems like although he isn’t ready to act upon them, he accepts their beliefs. Overall, the second reading really opened my eyes to details I had previously glossed over and not given much thought.
A word I didn’t understand from the reading was Ubermensch. However after a brief search I discovered Ubermensch was a philosophical German concept meaning superhuman or beyond-human. Ubermensch was commonly used to as a goal for humanity to strive for.
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