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I recently trotted out the argument from normality of genocide, which nudged Chip Smith into saying that the event which gave rise to the term "genocide" didn't qualify, and that it is in general of limited utility in understanding the conflicts it is generally applied to. He's already a Holocaust denier though, so I guess it isn't that big a leap.

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Robin, you really think that genocide is a "rare event"? There sure have been a lot of rare events int he past 200 years (and longer).

Oddly, you are right about one thing: these extremely common events of one group of people trying to exterminate another are becoming less common in terms of % of living people who are killed during them. At least, that's something I read online recently...

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