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Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Famine, Affluence, and Morality is an essay written by Peter Singer in 1971 covering the moral obligation of the affluent to donate some of their money to famine relief. One of the core arguments in the essay is that letting someone die of starvation--when you could have reasonably prevented the death with relatively little costs to your own well being--is not significantly different morally than committing murder.
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