you know i made a really good observation

[Jenny A]

Are we to assign some significance to the relative number of the dead once it crosses the threshold into millions (or tens of millions, or hundreds of millions, collectively or individually)? What are we looking for perspective on here?

What are you saying? One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic?

If despot A and despot B would both being willing to put a billion people to death were it expedient to do so, the fact that A manages to do in five million while B only squeaks in with a million does not make B any more moral than A, just less efficient or perhaps lacking in opportunity. Both despots are equally depraved.

That is why modern despots have killed more people than those in the past, more efficient means, and more available people to kill.