Valuing Genocide

[Watchman]

genocide
1944, apparently coined by Polish-born U.S. jurist Raphael Lemkin in his work "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe" [p.19], in reference to Nazi extermination of Jews, lit. "killing a tribe," from Gk. genos "race, kind" (see genus) + -cide, from L. -cidere "kill," comb. form of caedere "to cut, kill" (see concise). The proper formation would be *genticide.

From Online Etymology Dictionary. And "genus" is

(pl. genera), 1551 as a term of logic (biological sense dates from 1608), from L. genus (gen. generis) "race, stock, kind," cognate with Gk. genos "race, kind," and gonos "birth, offspring, stock," from PIE base *gen-/*gon-/*gn- "produce, beget, be born" (cf. Skt. janati "begets, bears," janah "race," jatah "born;" Avestan zizanenti "they bear;" Gk. gignesthai "to become, happen;" L. gignere "to beget," gnasci "to be born," genius "procreative divinity, inborn tutelary spirit, innate quality," ingenium "inborn character," germen "shoot, bud, embryo, germ;" Lith. gentis "kinsmen;" Goth. kuni "race;" O.E. cennan "beget, create;" O.H.G. kind "child;" O.Ir. ro-genar "I was born;" Welsh geni "to be born").

...so, no. It would be a most heinous violent persecution and mass murder of an ill-defined group of people based on their beliefs, however.

And feel free to try to define "radical" in this context with any degree of operative usefulness. Wears a beard ?

Why the flying spagehitti monster of course.

Right. Now, kids, what do we call people who encourage the extermination of entire populaces on the basis that some crackpot supernatural entity told them so ? Yes, you with the cap. Dangerous religious fanatics and general basket cases ? Right you are, sit down.

It bites both ways, you know.