Analogy post
Hurried post: The Great Leap Forward and resultant famine If you do bad things on purpose to hurt other people. And you plan it out in advance. And you deliberately do things which are bad in order to hurt people who are good, in the hopes of achieving predetermined political goals. And you use weaponised incompetence and feigned ignorance as part of it, and in doing so create plausible deniability. And then by doing the bad things, you kill tens of millions of people. Perhaps by means of famine. You have still engaged in mass murder, and therefore genocide. And this holds true even if you engaged in weaponised incompetence and feigned ignorance and tried to create plausible deniability. Just because you didn't write a white paper stating "I wanna genocide these recalcitrant bastards even harder than the Stalinists murdered then Kazakhs or Hitler killed the Poles, Gypsies and Jews" doesn't mean that it wasn't genocide. *** If you do bad things to an individual. A...