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There's infinite levels of badness and eventually it does reach a point, be it in risk, probability, magnitude, or impact, in which it is super bad, and we may
by array_key_first 1y ago
There's infinite levels of badness and eventually it does reach a point, be it in risk, probability, magnitude, or impact, in which it is super bad, and we may consider it violence, or murder, or crimes against humanity, or what have you.
Everything is not everything else. Scale not only matters, it's almost the only thing that matters.
- tptacek 1y agoIf you can define that threshold, you don't need terms like "social murder" anymore.
- array_key_first 1y agoNobody 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 1y agoI'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.
- array_key_first 1y agoI'm purposefully choosing extremes to highlight the concept in such a way it can't possibly be argued against. The concept being - organized or institutional crimes are real, and can be much, much, MUCH more severe than murder.