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When rational altruism conflicts with natural compassion

My EA friends say having emotions about which cause to support is irrational but I can't just turn off caring more about animals than people.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The demand for impartial reasoning collides with the particular ways individual hearts are moved to care.

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