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tptacek a day ago

If you can define that threshold, you don't need terms like "social murder" anymore.

array_key_first 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Nobody can really because it's complicated. Or, at least, nobody can agree, which is why we have the terms. However, I think the terms have some validity, because the broader concept does.

I mean, is Hitler a murderer? Is your run of the mill burglary gone wrong worse than the Holocaust? Obviously not. So there has to be some kind of understanding of organized death.

tptacek 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure "at least it wasn't the Holocaust" is, in practice, quite the defense legal argument it's being made out to be here.