by Carl Howard | Apr 6, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Resources, Food and Environment
One of my Facebook friends recently posted this status: “if there was as much enthusiasm for curing cancer or ending child poverty as there is for the latest gadgets the world would be a better place”. My gut reaction was to agree. I mean, it’s probably a feeling most...
by Carl Howard | Mar 22, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Race, Society
Yesterday I posted about how compassion can be problematic in philanthropy. The “don’t donate to Japan” clusterfuck is a great example. It started with Good Intentions Are Not Enough suggesting that people wait to donate to Japan, to see if and how much is needed and...
by Carl Howard | Mar 21, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Charity and Philanthropy, Philosophy
Not much. Not much at all, as I will now argue. This post is a continuation of the last two posts which were about the Japanese earthquake vs the Haiti one. I thought the intent of my posts was pretty clear but looks like people interpret commentry on tragedies very...
by Carl Howard | Mar 21, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Philosophy
Not much. Not much at all, as I will now argue. This post is a continuation of the last two posts which were about the Japanese earthquake vs the Haiti one. I thought the intent of my posts was pretty clear but looks like people interpret commentry on tragedies very...
by Carl Howard | Mar 16, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Race, Society
[ADDED on 6th Oct 2015]: This post is more about the subjective coverage of the two disasters as I’ve experience in the media, not about donations pledged by international organisations or similar outcomes. In the previous post, I mentioned some of the ways in which...
by Carl Howard | Mar 15, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Race, Society
[UPDATE: follow-up post here] There has been a huge reaction to the Japan earthquake in terms of media coverage, personal condolences and anguish on social media etc etc. While that’s a good thing I’m very dismayed at how much less support was shown in the Haiti...
