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The Rescue Principle

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Singer's principle: "if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it."

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Applied globally, the principle converts affluence into obligation: prevention within power, at bearable cost, owed — borders and oceans notwithstanding.