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When couples disagree about effective altruism donation priorities

My partner and I donate 15% of our income to effective charities but we keep disagreeing about which causes deserve our money and it's becoming clear we have fundamentally different views about what suffering matters most. We've been putting off the conversation because every discussion feels like we're judging each other's moral priorities.

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Two people are discovering their deepest moral intuitions don't align while trying to do good together.

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