You bitched that I replied to something you deemed rhetorical, so I simply opted for that same line of rhetorical commentary.
As another poster once said about such things:
Well, this is awkward.
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My country has bombed a lot of countries, could you narrow it down a bit?
Once again, why do you feel the need to keep responding to me, and you replied to me first. You are under no obligation to reply, so don't.
Put me on ignore, for all I care.
I love that you are calling on me to do something you have shown you cannot do. Can you stop, now?
This thread about the US committing genocide in their concentration camps at the border derailed quickly.
“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”
I understand why you would be confused, but it is not. If common sense is not enough, going to Lemkin's own definition you will quickly find out that according to him, genocide:
"is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves."
Unfortunately, I know that this is not enough to stir your common sense, so lets go a bit deeper to hopefully teach you and others the gravity and scale of the word.
Destexhe, Rwanda and Genocide in the 20th Century:
"Genocide is a crime on a different scale to all other crimes against humanity and implies an intention to completely exterminate the chosen group."
"Genocide is therefore both the gravest and greatest of the crimes against humanity"
He even warned that liberal use of the word makes it "dangerously commonplace".
Michael Ignatieff at one of his Harvard lectures elaborated:
"Those who should use the word genocide never let it slip their mouths. Those who unfortunately do use it, banalise it into a validation of every kind of victimhood"
He was talking about ignorant use of the word in regard to actual slavery btw, so imagine what he'd have to say to anyone pushing the word here.
Just in case the morbid nature of the word hasn't dawned on you yet, here is a list of genocides that wikipedia thinks fit the UN's 1948 CPPCG:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tion_campaigns
Have a gander at the smallest-scale genocide on that list and look at the death toll. Ask yourself where this doctor's "genocide" would fit on that list.
Of course wikipedia is not a great academic source, so maybe the PITF will have a better chance at drilling in which events constitute genocide.
Now, if it turns out that this doctor was operating within a larger scheme, especially if government officials are implicated, then it might start looking like genocide, assuming his behavior stretches decades and thousands of victims. If it turns out that such an extremely unlikely scheme involved and occured at multiple facilities, then the word can start being used in an intelligent and more responsible manner to refer to this situation. Until then, saying this is genocide is nothing more than populist hyperbole, which of course we are all too familiar with these days.
Once again, put me on ignore. It's that easy. You chose to respond to me, and want to get pissed when I reply back.
My government is committing genocide, and I fucking condemned them for that. See, that's easy.
Now, let's see if you can summon even an ounce of restraint, and do what you are demanding I do. I fucking dare you.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
Calling it now. Nothing will happen to those responsible outside of a slight slap on the wrist.
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtmlDefinition
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.