[mirkules]

> Really? How much money have you donated to help provide clean drinking water to poor children in third world countries?

I was born and raised in a third world country, and I assure you the problem is much bigger than simply throwing money at their problems.

> Really? You would sacrifice 100 to save 1? That's a very peculiar moral calculus you have there.

The sacrifice is only hypothetical, while the drowning child is something of immediate concern. If a person were to stand by watching a child drown in exchange for throwing money at a problem that is neither directly visible nor immediate, I would conclude there is something fundamentally wrong with that person.