humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Mar 8, 5:58 am, Potroast wrote:

> Just to be clear about definitions "genocide" in my context it
> doesn't mean "every single last person" Not ever Jewish person was
> killed during WW2. Not every Armenian was killed by the Turks. Ditto
> for Rwanda, etc... The US military dictionary defines it as "the
> deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a
> particular ethnic group or nation". Mass killings + a fetish with
> muslims = genocide. It's not that hard to connect the dots.

Especially for a dot head like you.

By that definition, our attacks on Germany and Japan constituted
genocide.

There are two things missing from that definition. The first is that
the killing is undertaken *merely because* someone is of a particular
ethnic group or nation, independently of any rational basis in self-
defense. And second is that the intention is to kill *all* of them
without exception (which is the give-away that self-defense is not the
issue).

An unequivocal example of that was the Nazi genocide of the Jews - and
the gleeful support of it by the Arabs. The Arabs merely continued the
idea with their repeated calls for the annihilation of Israel and
their specific targeting of innocent civilians, women and children.
Their bloodthirstiness is demonstrated by their hailing such killers
as martyrs.

> Exclusively Iran? Absolutely not.. He said nation(S). Plural. The Ayn
> website has many articles about Muslim nations other than Iran that it
> sees as supporting terrorism. I imagine those nations are on their
> death list.

You imagine?

How about Malaysia or Indonesia, not to mention American muslims? How
about Turkey which is a (semi) ally? How about our support of the
muslims against the real genocide attempt of the Serbs? etc. etc.

Meathead.

Fred Weiss