Genocide is clearly defined, in my opinion. It’s just that it’s hard to prove. Much like hate crimes can be hard to prove. Unless Israel comes out and states their intentions behind the violence, NATO is tied. But America does not need to be providing the weapons or the funds to keep this massacre going. And genocide or not, the violence is wrong.
AFAIK Cardassians were pretty bad. They enslaved an entire planet of people. I believe the mining operations were concentration camps for the slaves.
This is the definition in Wikipedia:
In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.
Gaza has been experiencing all of that: murders, bodily harm, mental harm, etc. By way of example they are being starved out - not because they are terrorists but because they are part of a nation state/race which Israel is targeting.
I agree with you. Words are slippery. Dig too deep into any word and the meaning can become elusive. What is rain? Is it when water falls down from a cloud? Do we have to define the state of matter? How quickly does it fall? Is chemically induced rain still “rain”? Words are not as clear as we think they are at first glance. Genocide is no different.
I just feel like these people need to take a step back and realize that this violence is wrong. It’s not self-defense and it’s not aimed at evil people. Good, kind, people are being torn to shreds. Those people deserved to have a chance to wipe sleep out of their eyes, eat a nice meal, drink fresh water, and speak once more. I don’t really know how we would be more “actionable”. I don’t want a reckless UN that goes around ruling with an iron fist at any whiff of international dispute. But I also don’t want a weak UN that is too scared or unwilling to do the right thing when the issues are clear.
Genocide is clearly defined, in my opinion. It’s just that it’s hard to prove. Much like hate crimes can be hard to prove. Unless Israel comes out and states their intentions behind the violence, NATO is tied. But America does not need to be providing the weapons or the funds to keep this massacre going. And genocide or not, the violence is wrong.
AFAIK Cardassians were pretty bad. They enslaved an entire planet of people. I believe the mining operations were concentration camps for the slaves.
This is the definition in Wikipedia:
Gaza has been experiencing all of that: murders, bodily harm, mental harm, etc. By way of example they are being starved out - not because they are terrorists but because they are part of a nation state/race which Israel is targeting.
I agree with you. Words are slippery. Dig too deep into any word and the meaning can become elusive. What is rain? Is it when water falls down from a cloud? Do we have to define the state of matter? How quickly does it fall? Is chemically induced rain still “rain”? Words are not as clear as we think they are at first glance. Genocide is no different.
I just feel like these people need to take a step back and realize that this violence is wrong. It’s not self-defense and it’s not aimed at evil people. Good, kind, people are being torn to shreds. Those people deserved to have a chance to wipe sleep out of their eyes, eat a nice meal, drink fresh water, and speak once more. I don’t really know how we would be more “actionable”. I don’t want a reckless UN that goes around ruling with an iron fist at any whiff of international dispute. But I also don’t want a weak UN that is too scared or unwilling to do the right thing when the issues are clear.