Direct causality, for one.<p>If a person on the street who is starving asks me for food, and I decline and yell some epithet about the homeless, and keep walking, any reasonable person would consider that less evil than if I shot that person while yelling that epithet.<p>At the end of the day, the direct cause of the famine were crop failures and the invasion of Burma, not Churchill&#x27;s inaction. At the end of the day, the direct cause of the millions of deaths in famines in the USSR was Joseph Stalin&#x27;s mass collectivization.<p>You should remember it, because, to put it bluntly, if you ever said that in Western society, you would be laughed out of the room.