Effective altruism, like economics, is mostly a bunch post hoc justifications for bad behavior.

> Actually, if you think real hard about it, we're the good guys

--the bad guys

The economist likes it because it resembles what their target audience tells themselves so they can sleep at night.

Why would a movement which started as nerds buying mosquito nets to stop malaria be "a bunch [of] post hoc justifications for bad behaviour"? You say this like it's an established fact or at least a common argument, yet I've never heard it before.