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.
Comment on Germans: what genocide?
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 months agoWell, he is right, its mass murdering, but not genocide.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It’s still genocide if somebody survives. Otherwise Holocaust wouldn’t be a genocide.
yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 2 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 months ago
Wait until we find his 2012 Twitter handle calling everyone but Titans unnecessary