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The principle the author asserts earlier in the text is that if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything else morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it. The author states this principle in its qualified form.

The author argues that if the argument so far has been sound, then neither our distance from a preventable evil nor the number of other people in the same situation lessens our obligation to mitigate or prevent that evil. The author takes the principle asserted earlier as established, which states that if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything else morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it.

The moral obligation that the author asserts in the text is that if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything else morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it. The conditions that must be met in order for this obligation to apply are that the prevention must be within our power, the evil must be very bad, and the prevention must not require sacrificing anything else morally significant.