• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    When genocide and no genocide are both too extreme, maybe a little genocide? Or a genocide far away? Or maybe killing a group that doesn’t qualify the definition of genocide?

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      1 month ago

      Or maybe killing a group that doesn’t qualify the definition of genocide?

      yeah let’s kill a group of people that is not a group of people

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            1 month ago

            The number of people is irrelevant, it’s because being rich isn’t a protected class.

            To use another example, it used to be legal way back when to sell cocaine and put it in soft drinks. “Cocaine sellers” were a group of people, but not a protected one. Criminalizing that group of people and explicitly trying to make that group not exist anymore isn’t a genocide, because “cocaine sellers” can’t reasonably be considered a protected class.

            Likewise, Antebellum culture in the southern US was heavily influenced by slavery, and slaveowners were eliminated as a group of people, but that’s not genocide, because slaveowners are not a protected class.

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        1 month ago

        Just shoot madly into a crowd with a low rate of fire. Totally ethical since it’s absolutely random.

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        In a strict reading, killing LGBTQ wouldn’t be genocide because they aren’t all related. On the other hand, they do form a (sub) culture. You can argue both ways but they technically don’t tick all the boxes. So it’s as bad but not jurisprudentially genocide so maybe a compromise we can convince our centrist friend of?