As reported in The New York Times, "the global economic crisis will cause an additional 22 children to die per hour, throughout all of 2009. And that's the best-case scenario. The World Bank says it's possible the toll will be twice that: an additional 400,000 child deaths, or an extra child dying every 79 seconds.According to Garrett Hardin, for rich nations to assist those children is: not obligatory, but nevertheless morally admirable Osuicidal obligatory Omorally neutral