(July 5, 2016 at 11:54 am)SofaKingHigh Wrote: So, for fear of repeating myself, would you consider genocide to be a moral act?
Normally the term genocide is referring to an extreme form of racism, where a certain people are to be eliminated, based strictly on race (although it can refer to political or religious groups as well). I would agree, that this is not moral.
It seems to me, that in regarding morality, the question is not "what"; as much as "why". While the magnitude of the transgression plays a role emotionally, logically, I do not see where scale effects an acts moral status.
So if you are referring to the deaths of a large (and perhaps genocentric) group that tells me what, but not why? Normally, when the term genocide is used, there is a "why" implied to it, and it is not morally justifiable.