Letting one calculation take over a giving decision is disturbing, and there is still a strong case for it if you want your ethics to be principled and about other people.

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• It is not appropriate to donate to your own employer, however good a giving opportunity it would otherwise be. EHElie Hassenfeld17 Dec 2014
• A stated company value that nobody would take the other side of is a platitude, not a choice. TLTobias Lütke18 Sept 2025
• Counting every being that can suffer, and applying consistent moral weights, yields conclusions its own defenders find uncomfortable and cannot fully endorse. HKHolden Karnofsky2 Feb 2022
• In a world where it's impossible to make purely moral decisions in everything we do, we should all recognize where we're making trade-offs and not try to paint ourselves as being purely logical. MBMatt Birchler14 Oct 2026
• The deeper anyone digs into a charity's cost-effectiveness estimate, the more unwarranted optimism they find, so the right prior on giving is a sceptical one. HKHolden Karnofsky18 Aug 2011

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