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"Famine, Affluence and Morality" is a 1971 essay prompted by a refugee crisis in East Bengal which was expected to kill up to nine million refugees. The essay had a profound impact on both moral philosophy and how people live their lives. But what happened to the refugees? How many died?

by /u/vinylemulator in /r/AskHistorians

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