Vladimir_Nesov comments on So you say you're an altruist... - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 18 March 2009 02:47:19AM 4 points [-]

You are not supposed to be as important to yourself as everybody else is to yourself, you can easily be more important. The point of helping the people in poor countries is exactly that supposedly you can help much more people per buck than in a developed country.