"kill" as a term for the forcible cessation of life carries no baggage tying it to historical atrocities. It can and is used to refer to deaths of stars, bacte

"kill" as a term for the forcible cessation of life carries no baggage tying it to historical atrocities. It can and is used to refer to deaths of stars, bacteria, plants, abstract concepts, and humans, without any connotation that these deaths carry equivalent moral weight. genocide(2), on the other hand, would be in very poor taste.