Radical Empathy - EA Forum
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This version of the essay has been lightly edited. You can find the original here. • …
This version of the essay has been lightly edited. You can find the original here. One theme of our work is trying to help populations that many people don't feel are worth helping at all. We've seen major opportunities to improve the welfare of factory-farmed animals, because so few others are trying to do it. When working on immigration reform, we've seen big debates about how immigration affects wages for people already in the U.S., and much less discussion of how it affects immigrants. Even our interest in global health and development is fairly unusual: Many Americans may agree that…
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