RichardKennaway comments on Some reservations about Singer's child-in-the-pond argument - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 20 June 2013 09:02:09AM 7 points [-]

Here is a more realistic one: would you become an indentured servant for life in order to save the child?

Or, not merely more realistic, but actually having real instances: would you throw your whole productive life into earning as much money as possible in order to give nearly all of it away to the cause of saving children?