jamesjoyce1882

How much should a Western person give to charity in order to be a morally good person? Should one live in poverty while people are starving and suffering elsewhere in the world? Or is there, in your opinion, a way to have modest personal wealth and luxury and still be a morally good person?

Thanks for fighting for this issue, with all these anti-science lunatics around it is important to also hear personal stories on the pro-science side.

My question is: What is the treatment for IVA? Is there a drug available that blocks the conversion to isovaleric acid, or does the patient have to live a live of leucine-free diet, much like people with PKU? If the latter, how do you cook?

Thanks, but honestly I don't find the question answered. You write:

But we don't claim to be saints, so we aren't going around wearing sackcloth either.

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We want more people to join us, and doing absolutely everything that, in theory, we ought to do is not the best way to achieve that.

But I don't understand how this would be a guideline to coming up with a number of how much personal wealth would be acceptable under real-world conditions.

Interesting. By that logic the billionaires donating half of their fortune are the perfect example of effective altruists, as they have inspired other billionaires to also donate half their fortune.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge

So therefore I guess the correct number is 50%?

In your estimation, are the Swiss people regretting their decision to de facto cancel all their collaborations with the EU in order to restrict immigration? Or are they still happy with that referendum?