Re:Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
by hexscrews on Thursday June 14, 2018 @08:35PM
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Wouldn't xenocide be a more apt description? A quick search for genocide gives the definition of:
"the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation."
While xenocide is described as:
xenocide (plural xenocides)
The killing of a stranger or foreigner.
(science fiction)
The genocide of an entire alien species.
(US, colloquial)
The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.
Re:Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
by garmaine on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:57AM
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Why? Genocide is by derivation the killing or wiping out of a genetic population. Why can’t that be applied to purposeful extinction of an animal species?
"the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation."
While xenocide is described as:
xenocide (plural xenocides)
The killing of a stranger or foreigner. (science fiction) The genocide of an entire alien species. (US, colloquial) The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenocide
Either is fine really, just seems like a semantic curiosity.