Moralizing isn't the point. The point is that, for a given value system, there is one charity that best optimizes for those values. The vast majority of the peo

Moralizing isn't the point. The point is that, for a given value system, there is one charity that best optimizes for those values. The vast majority of the people who donated to that museum would agree that the thousand lives are more important than the painting, yet they donated to the museum instead of the third world anyway. This isn't because they're immoral, it's because they're irrational: they're not optimizing with respect to their own value systems.