Tripitaka comments on Why effective altruists should do Charity Science’s Christmas fundraiser - Less Wrong
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Since I sort of danced my around making the point I wanted to make, here's what I'd meant to say more bluntly:
Edit to add:
1) Yours is not the first account of being offended I have heard. Unfortunately it makes sense. Everyone thinks of themselves as "being a nice person", even if the only money they give to charity is a dollar a week to the homeless.
Pursuing the much loftier goal of eg. giving 10% attacks this fundamental identity basis; and since there is no argumentative recourse, they can only react on the emotional level. Its an immune response.