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Comment author: jkaufman 23 October 2013 02:08:48PM 1 point [-]

The term "famine relief" in this context is unfortunate. Rachels is extending a 1972 paper of Peter Singer's which used that term. The argument is much stronger if you mentally substitute "most effective charity" for "famine relief".

Comment author: bokov 23 October 2013 10:12:24PM 1 point [-]

You should repeat this at the top level. This changes things quite a bit.

Comment author: jkaufman 24 October 2013 12:54:47AM 0 points [-]

Done.

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