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Joshua Blake's avatar

I'm pretty uncertain on that, maybe not strongly agree but I could see lots of agrees. People thinking "yes, that's a good thing to do that I don't personally do", perhaps similar to if you asked if people should fly less. Although I'd want to be explicit it's via a charity in the question.

If you asked 'do you think people donating at least 10% of their income to charities helping people in other countries is a reasonable thing to do?' I think you'd get majority yes.

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Sam Atis's avatar

How about 'a reasonable and normal thing to do'? And then how do you think it would compare to things like 'volunteering for a local charity', 'donating to a political party you support', 'campaigning against local buildings being destroyed', etc.? I think the EA stuff would be the least likely to be considered reasonable and normal.

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Joshua Blake's avatar

I'd think more people donate money to charities than donate to political parties, volunteer for charities, or campaign. So it seems more normal.

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