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# A child in a pond
Assuming we accept some moral obligations, do we have an obligation to help people in other states the same way we have an obligation to help a child we witness near us in spacetime struggling to breathe after falling in a pond?
What are the arguments for being concerned about the endemic poverty of people we shall probably never meet?
Do rich nations have moral obligations to assist less wealthy ones? Why?