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Assume That Woollard Is Correct That Having a Personal Encounter

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Assume that Woollard is correct that having a personal encounter with a victim may be sufficient to generate duties to help that victim even if it requires substantial sacrifice. Which of the following could you infer from that claim?


A) One is obligated to minimize the number of close personal encounters one has with destitute people; otherwise, one will be overly burdened to help them.
B) What is of ultimate moral relevance when determining our obligations to aid others is not proximity, but whether one has had a personal encounter with a victim.
C) Intuitions about whether one is obligated to make substantial sacrifices to help strangers dying in other countries are unreliable since they are generally based on conventional views on morality that could be wrong or incoherent.
D) Tourists from affluent nation who visit poorer nations may have greater obligations to help those suffering in those nations once they return from vacation although they are no longer in close proximity to those victims.

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