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Murdering one person is murder; murdering a substantial number of people in a region is genocide. Scale can definitely change the fundamental nature of something.


Not really. Genocide is about intent, about who you target. Killing all Sami people in Sweden would be a genocide. Dropping a nuke on Washington D.C. would not be a genocide.


Killing nearly all Sami in Sweden is a genocide. Killing one Sami because they are Sami is a hate crime, not a genocide.


Seems that you misread...


Yes?




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