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The Moral Difference Between Allowing a Child to Die of Malaria
It's a lack of directness or feeling like you are direct, at least in people. Peter Stanger uses this to say that essentially you taking 30 pounds that you could have is just the same as posting them cyanide. It would be less effort for you to donate 30 pounds to Oxfam than to go and like save a child from drowning in a puddle, right? But we seem to think that you have to save the child from the puddle, but you don't have to give money to charity.