Seeking conversation partners on demandingness, coherence, and living with persistent moral tension. I am writing to look for people who might be willing to discuss the demandingness of morality with me in a sustained and serious way.
This is not a question of unfamiliarity with the literature. I have spent considerable time engaging with discussions around demandingness, opportunity cost reasoning, supererogation, agent-centred prerogatives, and related debates within EA and moral philosophy more broadly. Conceptually, I feel I understand the landscape reasonably well.
What I struggle with is not really a primarily theoretical disagreement but lived integration in practice.
In particular, I experience persistent tension around the following:
This produces a recurring sense of “standing moral problem” rather than a discrete philosophical puzzle.
I would especially value conversations with people in one (or more) of the following categories:
My goal is not to debate in the adversarial sense or to convince anyone about anything per se, but to understand how others have navigated this terrain in practice.
Ideally, I would like to speak with someone (or several people) more than once.
If this resonates with you, I would be grateful to connect (via comments, DM, or whatever format you prefer).
Thank you.
Milan
Hi! I've thought a lot about this and meant to write a piece on how EA can feel like an overbearing parent. If this is in line with what you're looking for, let's chat!
Thanks. It would be very useful to chat if you are open to it. I will ping you a DM if that's OK.