Timmerman challenges the inference from the intuition that we are obligated to rescue the child in Drowning Child to the truth of Singer's central claim-"If it is in your power to prevent something bad from happening, without sacrificing anything nearly as important, it is wrong not to do so."

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Timmerman argues that the intuitive moral obligation to rescue a child in a scenario like Singer's Drowning Child thought experiment does not necessarily support Singer's broader ethical principle that one must always act to prevent bad things from happening if one can do so without comparable sacrifice.

Timmerman Challenges the Inference from the Intuition That We Are