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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 04 December 2012 04:01:19AM 4 points [-]

Of course it is. But so is "children in Africa have it really bad, so why are you bothering to buy Christmas presents instead of helping them?"

I'm not a complete altruist. I do care more about the people I know than random other people. I don't care about people more just because they live in the same country as me, though.