When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler' (2010)

Re:When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hit... by mtgx on Sunday November 17, 2013 @12:48PM (#6749875)

What are you called when you kill 100,000 Iraqis?

It's probably relatively easy to dismiss 100,000 vs 1 million or 10 million, since in a way it just looks like "statistics". But look at it another way. How did you feel when someone close to you die? Just that one person, not 5 more, or 100x more. Now multiply how you felt by 100,000 times, and think about the damage to human life that was created.

Does it really matter that 1 million is 10x bigger than that, or is 100,000 "enough" to think the damage is immense?

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Re:When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hit... by wrongc0ntinent on Sunday November 17, 2013 @03:04PM (#6750552)

There's a reasonably narrow definition of the term "genocide". Since it started with Lemkin, I recommend starting here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin

It's become a little more complicated since, but intent was pretty much a constant condition, so I doubt this would qualify.

Also wanna add that scale is important to all things society, though I appreciate the humanity of your argument.

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