Genocide is legally defined as killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group, deliberately harming the life of a group’s members with the intention of causing complete or partial destruction, preventing births within the group, or forcibly taking children of the group and giving them to another group. Genocide is universally illegal. (Prevent Genocide International 29) There have been numerous large scale genocides since the 1900s, including the world famous Holocaust. People participate in genocides because they either believe themselves or are convinced that it will solve their problems, like Adolf Hitler starting the Holocaust by convincing the German people that Jewish Europeans were the reason that Germany lost the first World War.
There have been numerous large scale genocides since the 1900s. Just throughout the twentieth century, there have been plenty, including the aforementioned Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, Turkey’s genocide of the Armenians, the forced disappearances in Argentina, the Rwandan Genocide, the violent conflict between Israel and Palestine, and the Democratic …show more content…
Genocide is illegal all across the planet Earth. The Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, Turkey’s genocide of the Armenians, the forced disappearances in Argentina, the Rwandan Genocide, the violent conflict between Israel and Palestine, and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s genocide are some examples of genocides. People commit genocide in an attempt to make their life go back to normal or because they believe someone else’s attempt to blame someone for something. Genocides are justified by saying that victims are worthless, so they are exempt from the moral universe, and that this means morals do not apply to those
There have been numerous large scale genocides since the 1900s. Just throughout the twentieth century, there have been plenty, including the aforementioned Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, Turkey’s genocide of the Armenians, the forced disappearances in Argentina, the Rwandan Genocide, the violent conflict between Israel and Palestine, and the Democratic …show more content…
Genocide is illegal all across the planet Earth. The Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, Turkey’s genocide of the Armenians, the forced disappearances in Argentina, the Rwandan Genocide, the violent conflict between Israel and Palestine, and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s genocide are some examples of genocides. People commit genocide in an attempt to make their life go back to normal or because they believe someone else’s attempt to blame someone for something. Genocides are justified by saying that victims are worthless, so they are exempt from the moral universe, and that this means morals do not apply to those