Valuing Genocide

[Spino]

Humanity's capability for inhumanity is, sadly, all too constantly reaffirmed.



Some folks have even argued that Dhaugazvili's [sic?] mass murders were less evil (or at least less "genocidal") since he didn't single out any one group but was an "equal opportunity" butcher. While likely correct, at least in a denotative sense, I really don't find that particularly comforting.

You mean Stalin? Stalin may have been an equal opportunity butcher but at least with Hitler you knew where you stood. Stalin's acute paranoia inspired massive purges were based on hunches drawn from the more 'imaginative' parts of his sociopathic mind. Stalin changed his views as to which individuals and/or groups who were loyal with alarming irregularity. What began as a deliberate and calculating tactic meant to keep his enemies (real or imagined) off balance early in his rise to power wound up becoming a veritable murder lottery. Stalin eventually did single out ethnic groups as his witness by his wild claims of a 'Jewish doctors' plot just prior to his death.