To know why the why dont you go down with the white house. So i dont know how i dont think its the fault of the clothes. Of the. Top that wanted to develop. A new number 1000001 it. May. 6 6 2 well. To so think of visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze in times of uncertainty empathy our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how to make sure that our good intentions are not pave the road to hell i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the last of the at Oxford University and the cofounder of the center of for effective altruism its really great to have you with us today welcome to our show was. Great to be here thank you for inviting me on so all right so the movement here associated with this called sect of altruism i mean the very notion of this active altruism makes me wonder can altruism be in the affective or even harmful and in what cases yes i think suddenly isnt very often as ine
We will speak with independent journalist allan nairn and unit organizer Jane Mcalevey got how to stop and electoral coup and what went wrong in the 2000 flood recount. Then georgia flips blue for now, as joe biden pulls ahead of trump for the first time in extraordinarily tight race for the states 16 elecral votes. Ware patitly watchg as demoacy is mos definitely at stake in to see whether or no georgia will fp for thecratic candidate for First Time Since 1992. Amy will in the u. S. , millions of people are mesmerized by the president ial race, ipuerto ric the isld is dealg with its own race that produced very different results, including the election of afro puerto rican human rights feminist and l lgbtq activist ana irma rivera lassen. Is i am anmeans bt and others the black woman. The discrimination some of us may face. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Democric president ial nominee joe biden has
Thats actively harmful not just in affective but most of the time things do sentiment of good is just that the very best things we can focus our time and money on do normas them out into the world lets talk about the inefficient ways to quench my desire to do something outrageous to what i read an example in one of your interviewees a charity that for instance sends books to africa for kids to learn with but theres no teachers there so the books arent really making much difference so your money sort of waste it give me other causes that arent effective enough to be donating to if i spend money on for instance Alzheimers Research is it like money well spent is it effective. Ok so i mean Something Like funding out same as the search or funding treatment for illnesses that affects some of it just countries in the world you know these are good things to do theyre making the world better but the question is are they the most effective things you can be doing and i think generally not and th
We will speak with independent journalist allan nairn and unit organizer Jane Mcalevey got how to stop and electoral coup and what went wrong in the 2000 flood recount. Then georgia flips blue for now, as joe biden pulls ahead of trump for the first time in extraordinarily tight race for the states 16 elecral votes. Ware patitly watchg as demoacy is mos definitely at stake in to see whether or no georgia will fp for thecratic candidate for First Time Since 1992. Amy will in the u. S. , millions of people are mesmerized by the president ial race, ipuerto ric the isld is dealg with its own race that produced very different results, including the election of afro puerto rican human rights feminist and l lgbtq activist ana irma rivera lassen. Is i am anmeans btqi and others the black woman. The discrimination some of us may face. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Democric president ial nominee joe biden ha
And what youre seeing now is how the 2020 u. S. President ial election is shaping up so far lawsuits calls to stop ballot counts on allegations of fraud draw angry crowds to the streets. Make sure to check out our website r t dot com for faster than light updates on anything and everything surrounding the u. S. Elections ill be back with more of your world new News Headlines in just about half an hour in just about an hour thanks for watching and i hope to see you then. No one. Looking at the white house. I dont think if the phone. And then. Call tom that come on a full. One. Sorry very sorry 6 6 2. Welcome to so think of visionaries may Sophie Shevardnadze in times of uncertainty and the our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how to make sure that our good intentions are not pave the road to how i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the loss of a at Oxford University and the co