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Moral Obligation and Capability: To what extent does having the ability to help someone create a moral obligation to do so and where, if anywhere, should that obligation reasonably end? Does proximity (geographic, relational, or emotional) change our moral obligation, or should capacity alone guide our duty to act? If we accept that capability creates obligation, at what point does "choosing not to help" become morally indistinguishable from causing harm?
https://www.templeton.org/news/moral-thought-experiments-and-the-shallow-pond
https://philosophersmag.com/risky-giving/
https://medium.com/@victor.ronin/on-peter-singers-shallow-pond-argument-7453bb65b73b