genocide

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> genocide

Sorry, Victor. I'm still stuck in the past, I guess. Certainly, the
destruction even of an abstract like "culture," in a real sense,
erases the bearers of the extinguished culture from the face of the
earth. And the point of the thread is the *legal definition* of
genocide, regardless of the exact manner in which it has been or may
be carried out. However, even if the extinction "only" of a culture is
the end, that extinction often begins with the physical extinction,
often in the process of the propagation and imposition of some "one,
true faith" - after all, *peoples* were destroyed in order to "save"
them, long before any villages were - of those most able to pass on
that culture.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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-Mark Twain

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