When visiting the Effective Altruism page I left like they were just trying to sell the good parts of their “product”. They were saying that you can help people and that’s a good think. In Southan’s paper he talked about how these people were kinda extreme on what they thought would help people and that you need to be making money and then giving in to others but at the same time you have to be the best because you are replaceable. I don’t really like the EAs because on their website they say that “passion is much less important than you might think”. If you’re trying to get people to join your cause maybe don’t tell them that their passion and what they love is stupid.

A question that is wrestled with is “is art a waste of time?” I don’t think art is a waste of time. There are so many forms of art and they all place a role in my everyday life. If art is a waste of time then people wouldn’t do what they love and there wouldn’t be music,books, paintings, movies, and so much more. Art in any of its forms has impacted my life for the better. I think the ones that maybe stand out the most would have to be books and music. I love reading, in my spare time when I don’t have homework to do I am most likely either reading or listening to music. Reading is a huge part of who I am because if I’m feeling down then I can read a book and get away and into a different world for a little. It helps with my emotions as well, when I’m happy I can read or even when I’m sad and need a good cry I can read a book that has just what I need. With books I can tell people about them and then they can see why I like this book and maybe they’ll like it as well. Then with music it helps fill the silence, it in a way is good when listening to for any emotion as well. When I’m happy and in a good mood then I’ll play something upbeat but if I’m sad then I’ll listen to something that either is happy so that my mood changes or listen to sad music to stay in that mood. If I woke up tomorrow and all of the aforementioned art was gone I don’t know what I would do. I might try and make music and sing but I’m not a good singer so that would get old fast. I think I might be able to find something that’ll keep my attention, like I could go outside or maybe hang out with friends but I would be very strange to not have any music or books. I believe that the Effective Altruism folk would accept my profession because I am going into nursing and that helps people. I think that they’d want me to help even more by donating most of the money that I’ll receive and give it away. I’d be useful to these people but I don’t think that I’d enjoy what I was doing even though I was still helping people because there wouldn’t be as much of a reward when I just have to give most of my earnings away.