Why Giving Tuesday Raises An Uncomfortable Moral Dilemma
Every time we divvy up our money among good causes, we're making a moral judgment about who is most deserving.
As holiday donations kick off with this Giving Tuesday, we're going to bring up an aspect of contributing to charity that makes a lot of us ... uncomfortable.
We're talking about the idea that every time we divvy up our money among good causes, we're making a moral judgment: Who is most deserving of our help and which outcomes are most valuable?
And we're not making this judgement in an abstract sense. On a conscious level we might be picking a charity based on some personal connections — in memory of a grandmother, we donate to a home for the elderly.
But through our choices we're effectively setting up a precise mathematical formula for say, how much a child's life is worth compared to an adult's. Or how much
