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syllogism comments on Offer: I'll match donations to the Against Malaria Foundation - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: jkaufman 04 February 2013 04:47PM

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Comment author: syllogism 05 February 2013 07:52:45AM 7 points [-]

I can definitely see the argument for that, but I think there's just too much of that going on in charity today. "I'm going to fool you for a good cause" is the justification for a lot of shoddy practices supporting what usually turn out to be pretty mediocre causes.

I think it's worth keeping a higher standard with appeals to rational charity. There's long term benefit in a complete renunciation of the dark arts.