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You're right, of course, but it highlights an uncomfortable truth: we don't help other people to make them feel better, but rather to me us feel better.

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While I agree with the comments, I also think that we don't want to signal that we will expend money to help distant victims as this signal has to be continually maintained by spending more money and potentially demands money without bound. We want to signal to others that we do what's right, but more importantly we want to signal that to ourselves, but we are vague regarding what we mean by "do what's right" and can fairly easily be made to think that it includes helping distant victims.

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