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Originally posted by Spanky
Genocide is wrong. I can say that with moral certainty. Do you disagree?
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I can say that you are wrong within the construct of your own moral code.
Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group." In order to achieve your goals, what difference does it make if we kill 240MM across a wide cross-section of groups or if we wipe certain groups entirely out, like, say, anti-democratic theocratic groups like Wahabbis? Where does this idea that its somehow worse to kill all of an Amazon tribe than just some of an Amazon tribe come from? If Saddam were killing fewer Kurds but a lot more Shia, would you have felt less justified to invade?
As an aside, I was surprised to see political and cultural groups included in the definition. The Nazis were a political group. Al Queda is both a political and cultural group, yet we are doing our damnedest to exterminate them. I guess, by definition, the U.S. is engaged in genocide.
