Famine, Affluence, and Global Poverty
Singer's drowning child, the demandingness objection, and whether easy rescue at a distance is charity or obligation
Planned, not yet written
This rung already has its place in the Applied Ethics ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.
Will definedrowning child argumenteffective altruismmoral distance
Assumesutilitarianismduty of rescuepositive dutyimperfect dutysupererogationdemandingness objectionagent-centred prerogative