“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.”
Peter Singer
Why is this so radical? Because, according to Singer, most of us in the affluent world metaphorically walk past such a shallow pond [with a drowning child] every day of our lives. You, reader, are probably one of those to whom Singer’s argument is addressed.
David Edmonds, Death in a Shallow Pond.