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Comment author: multifoliaterose 10 September 2010 10:16:00AM *  4 points [-]

Fair point regarding scope insensitivity proper. But note that people are less willing to help a group of humans in need than an individual human in need. This comes through in the references on the Wikipedia page for the identifiable victim effect.