• desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 months ago

        If I randomly kill all humans it would be genocide. I absolutely hate the common usage of the word, but killing all humans definitely would be genocide.

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        7 months ago

        Killing 50% of any one people is genocide, right? For example, the Nazis killed up to 50% of European Romani people and it is classified as a genocide.

        Let’s assume killing 50% of n peoples is genocide.

        Since killing 50% of n peoples is genocide, killing 50% of n+1 peoples must also be genocide, else a number N would exist such that killing 50% of N - 1 peoples is genocide but killing 50% of N peoples is not. The existence of such a number N would be quite contradictory, as it would imply one could undo genocide by killing more people. Additionally, if one were to first kill 50% of N - 1 people and then kill 50% of one more people some time later, both events would be classified as genocide, since killing 50% of one people is assumed to be genocide.

        Therefore, Thanos did in fact commit genocide.

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      7 months ago

      Israel: [Murdering journalists and foreign aid workers] see? It’s not only Palestinians, it’s random.