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The people who are actually better off because of how you live.
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Everything worth your time on the question: Where does my money go beyond me and mine?
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Generosity: talk it throughREAD · ESSAY
Famine, Affluence and Morality
Peter Singer
The strongest version of the demanding case. Also the one most people have never actually read.
The argument that distance makes no moral difference: if you can prevent serious harm at modest cost, you should.
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Impartial obligation. Distance is morally irrelevant.
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Special obligations. Partiality towards those close to you is not a failure of reasoning. Persons, Character and Morality
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