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    25 days ago

    What do you mean by your last point. Genocide only being on whole population. Where did you get this definition.

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        25 days ago

        So you dont have a source of this definition? Because in international law its defined quite differently, which is quite obvious since your definition, as given, would not classify many real instances as genocide.

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          24 days ago

          It’s the entomology of the word.

          Legally they have a definition which broadens the concept to not just direct killing of a people, but also acts that lead to the eradication of a culture. For example: kidnapping the children of a group and raising the within your own culture is a genocidal act as it leads to the culture dying off, even though no actual killing has taken place.