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Then the word should be retired. The suffix -cide means to kill. Any other meaning makes the word itself a lie.
by dfilppi 6y ago
Then the word should be retired. The suffix -cide means to kill. Any other meaning makes the word itself a lie.
- skissane 6y agoIn geno-cide, it is the group you are killing (the genos), not necessarily its individual members. Sterilise them all and you will have successfully killed the group when its last member dies of old age, even though you never killed any individual member of it.
- hkmaxpro 6y agoThere are “growth regulator herbicides” and “growth-disrupting insecticides” that harm the growth of plants or inhibiting the reproduction of insects withing killing them. Xinjiang genocide is just the same.