(10-14-2023, 01:09 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: If genocide is the solution, them who is next?
Native Americans? Blacks? Haitians? Illegal aliens? Drug addicts?
That's an easy answer - whomever is trying to kill you, and won't take peace for an answer.
Other than that, Haitians are a really good candidate. Illegal aliens can be deported. No need to kill 'em off unless they try to breach the border again. Drug addicts can be left alone altogether, unless they're trying to jump you or break into your house. Other than those instances, addicts have pretty much made their own hell, one that you don't have to live in, and it would be a shame to make them leave it prematurely. They'll cancel their own birth certificates soon enough, all by themselves.
Native Americans and Blacks... well if they're not bothering you, why on Earth would you want to bother them? That would make you a candidate for extermination, wouldn't it?
Bottom line is, if folks are leaving you alone, why would you bother them? If they're NOT leaving you alone, why would you allow them to persist?
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We should expect to see more and more genocides as time goes on. We have too many people on the planet for available resources, and the movements we are seeing right now, world-wide, are people leaving resource poor environments and moving to place where they can just take other people resources after they kill them off and replace them. That's how humanity rolls, and it's nothing new. It's been going on every since there have been people and resources. It's just more imperative now, because of the population explosion.
The first civilizations came with war and genocide already on their minds. There are a gazillion tales of boundary disputes between Sumerian cities that ended poorly for one side or the other. Even before that, populations were on the move, leaving one devastated area (devastated because they over harvested the resources in it) in order to take over other folks' more resource intensive areas. The population of Britain was decimated between the Neolithic and the Copper Age, long before records were being written down. Chalcolithic Bell Beaker people invaded Britain from the continent, killing off and replacing 90$ of the Neolithic British population within about 3 generations. Britain is facing the same thing all over again in the modern day with their unrestricted illegal immigration. Ditto for the US, and a number of other countries.
The only hope the Earth has is a drastic population reduction to the point that people can live within their means rather than killing off other populations to live within THEIR means.
Part of the problems modern medical technology. It's allowing people to live longer than ever before, and not all of those people are smart enough to live. Medical technology is preserving the lives of some folks who would otherwise have died of stupidity...
... and those stupid folk are then going on to continue to breed, outbreeding the smart folks who can figure out ways to survive without killing off other folks. Then they kill off the smarter folks, and take their stuff - until they over-eat that area, too.
People are a lot like locusts.
So genocides are an inevitable feature of our future, unless we can get the population reduced to livable levels.
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