[virtualritz]

"[...] It is sadly thus that the very human impulse to help others [...] have been infused with logic so cold that even Mr. Spock would cringe upon hearing it. One iteration of this tendency is in the idea of “effective altruism.” We believe a more accurate phrase for this concept is “defective altruism” and will therefore use that term for the remainder of this article."

Quoted from https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_elitist_philanthropy_of_...

[kbelder]

>We believe a more accurate phrase for this concept is “defective altruism” and will therefore use that term for the remainder of this article."

How could anyone take an article that includes a sentence like that seriously?

[virtualritz]

That's a rather odd way to say you didn't actually read it.

It's written like a paper and I quoted from "the abstract".

To understand the conclusion in the abstract you obviously need to read the paper.