army1987 comments on Some reservations about Singer's child-in-the-pond argument - Less Wrong

21 Post author: JonahSinick 19 June 2013 11:54PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 June 2013 08:36:08AM 1 point [-]

Dunno if someone has noticed this before, and dunno how relevant this is, but in the child-in-the-pond scenario, you're the only person who could possibly save that child, whereas in the AMF scenario, anyone giving the same amount of money would save the same children.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 23 June 2013 02:26:29PM 1 point [-]

Well, it's certainly psychologically relevant, but I don't know how relevant it is to Singer's point.