...though, that said, there is a distinction which makes sense and is useful on an intellectual level. This is the distinction between those who do and don’t take the drowning child argument as a reason to keep trying to increase the amount they give (or, more broadly, the resources they dedicate to helping others), and then do so.
Clearly, this isn’t a sharp division. And different people also put different amounts of effort into trying to keep increasing the amount they give. But it’s still meaningful and useful (intellectually if not PR-wise) to distinguish between people like Joey and Katherine Savoie (trying to live on ~$3,500 a year each) and someone who simply shifts which charities they give the odd hundred dollars to.
...though, that said, there is a distinction which makes sense and is useful on an intellectual level. This is the distinction between those who do and don’t take the drowning child argument as a reason to keep trying to increase the amount they give (or, more broadly, the resources they dedicate to helping others), and then do so.
Clearly, this isn’t a sharp division. And different people also put different amounts of effort into trying to keep increasing the amount they give. But it’s still meaningful and useful (intellectually if not PR-wise) to distinguish between people like Joey and Katherine Savoie (trying to live on ~$3,500 a year each) and someone who simply shifts which charities they give the odd hundred dollars to.