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When couples disagree about effective giving priorities

My partner and I want to give away a significant portion of our income but we have completely different philosophies about effective giving - I want to focus on global poverty and they want to support local community organizations and neither of us can understand how the other doesn't see that their approach is obviously more impactful.

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Two people are discovering that their moral intuitions about where help is needed most are fundamentally incompatible.

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