1. I do think that it is important to relieve the suffering that is going on in the world. Especially with how many countries don’t have food or even in the US there are states that don’t have clean drinking water. I do believe that people should do what they love and what makes them happy even if it may not help others in the conventional way. I personally don’t know how much I can contribute to the cause because I am only a college student who doesn’t have a lot of money to be donating but if I am doing what is making me happy then that has to count for something. The goal of Effective Altruism would be to work hard to earn money and give as much of it away to those who need it. I think that donating some of your earnings is always a good thing, but if you’re only working to end up giving away what you’ve earn. It seems sad. These people may not be doing what they love and then they have to give away their earnings. I do donate blood every once and awhile so that is helping people in a small scale way, it may not exactly be what Effective Altruism may consider as helping but I think it helps.

2. According to Effective Altruism it is OK to make art but only if it follows rules and attracts new EA recruits and spreads altruistic ideas. When this happens many people aren’t doing what they love anymore.

3. Southan’s definition of replaceability is that the only good that counts is what you accomplish over and above what the next person would have done in your place. There is an equation that goes with this idea as well, it is your apparent good achieved minus the good your counterfactual replacement would have achieved equals your actual good achieved. It functions because people are always trying to do better than everyone else because they don’t want to be forgotten and replaced.