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A movement is growing in the world of philanthropy.

It's called Effective Altarism.

It's partially inspired by a thought experiment in philosophy. It's called a thought experiment in philosophy. It begins like this. You're walking to work.

You're walking to work. You're walking to work one day and you have a meeting and you're dressed nicely for work you have on some nice

a nice pair of shoes that costs a few hundred dollars and as you're walking to work you

pass this pond and you see in the pond a small child who's flailing around

appears to be drowning and there's no one else walking by the pond except for you.

You have to make a snap decision.

What am I going to do about the drowning child? And almost everyone agrees that you

absolutely must stride into the pond, save the drowning child.

You know that if you wait into the pond,

you can rescue this child's life.

But if you go wait into the pond, you're likely going to mess up your shoes and there might be some cost to your time.

Perhaps you'll be a little bit late to the meeting that you are expected for.

The argument is that if we saw a child drowning in a pond and we

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