Reductio ad absurdum: effective altruism edition

I already knew that the Effective Altruism movement is the biggest scam since snake oil, i.e. a kind of secular absolution for the amoral among us. (See here or here, for example.) But check out this brutal takedown of the logic of longtermism — and of consequentialist moral theory more generally! — over at the parody website More Wrong (https://morewrong.lol/; hat tip: Kottke), “Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive“: ΔL = D/G − pD = donation per bag of fentanyl sold ($1.80)G = GiveWell cost per life saved (~$5,500)p = probability a given bag is fatal (~1/4,000)