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Thats actively harmful not just in affective but most of the time things do sentiment of good is just that the very best things we can focus our time and money on do normas them out into the world lets talk about the inefficient ways to quench my desire to do something outrageous to what i read an example in one of your interviewees a charity that for instance sends books to africa for kids to learn with but theres no teachers there so the books arent really making much difference so your money sort of waste it give me other causes that arent effective enough to be donating to if i spend money on for instance Alzheimers Research is it like money well spent is it effective. Ok so i mean Something Like funding out same as the search or funding treatment for illnesses that affects some of it just countries in the world you know these are good things to do theyre making the world better but the question is are they the most effective things you can be doing and i think generally not and th
And the our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how do make sure that our good intentions do not pave the road to hell i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the loss of a at Oxford University and the cofounder of the center of for effective altruism its really great to have you with us today welcome to our show well as case being i thank you for inviting me on so all right so the movement here associated with is called a sect of altruism i mean the very notion of this active altruism makes me wonder can altruism be ineffective or even harmful in what cases yes i think soundly isnt very often as ineffective or even harmful so there are many attempts where people try and do some out of good but actually end up. Achieving very little or just achieving far less than they could have done so for example or so that im in the United States called scared straight takes juvenile delinquent
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Investigation. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist, Dan Henninger, columnist, kim strassel and columnist and senior fellow jason riley. Dan, the taylor testimony, bombshell . How much damage has this done to President Trump . Its done some damage. Its not so much the testimony. We dont know what the testimony was, because it was behind closed doors. He did produce, though, a 15page statement to the committee which was published and its a timeline of his experience in yo ukraine dealing with the president of ukraine,. Ukraine,zelensky and ukrainian policy with the state department and the National Security and the white house and Rudy Giuliani. Rudy giuliani doesnt figure heavily in the statement but hes there in the background, pressing. Paul what he lays out is what he says was a kind of twotier process. Two channel. Paul two channel. The one channel was to help the ukrainians fight off the russians, which included military aid to the Ukrainian Government whichs was aprobe app