“[T]he problem with [the claim that importance to oneself of one’s own projects and attachments limits the extent to which morality can demand that one provide assistance to others] is that, to the extent that it is plausible, it ought also to apply to other equally or more onerous demands that morality might be supposed to make. If my being me and having my own life can exempt me from the moral reason I might otherwise have to save someone unrelated to me (even though she is she, with her own life), it seems that these same facts should also exempt me from the moral reason I have not to kill this person if killing her were as important to me or my projects as avoiding having to save her is.”

— Jeff McMahan, Philosophical Critiques of Effective Altruism