Difference between revisions of "Talk:Mass murder"
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:LOL, I am the primary enforcer of the rule against sarcasm here, so you can relax. I'm almost always in earnest. I use smileys or the like when I think context isn't enough. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 15:05, 13 April 2007 (EDT) | :LOL, I am the primary enforcer of the rule against sarcasm here, so you can relax. I'm almost always in earnest. I use smileys or the like when I think context isn't enough. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 15:05, 13 April 2007 (EDT) | ||
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| + | :for the most part due to the atrocities of the two World Wars (the [[Holocaust]] is often seen as the most grievous example of this), although actions such as economic measures which killed many, e.g. the Great Leap Forwards in Maoist China, or the widespread starvation that took place in Imperial Russia 1900-1917 could also construed as mass murder, although they are not as clear-cut | ||
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| + | This is unsourced and really just sounds like personal opinion. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 16:06, 13 April 2007 (EDT) | ||
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'The greatest mass murders in recorded history took place in the Communist countries of the twentieth century.'
Although I think I know where you're going here (Mao and so on), these weren't directly mass murder. Terrible, yes, but wasn't the holocaust worse in that all of those deaths were ordered?
- Yes, yes, I mustn't inject my own personal opinion into the article. You can help me stay calm. --Ed Poor 14:40, 13 April 2007 (EDT)
- If that remark was in earnest (sarcasm's fairly hard to pick up on the interweb), then I'm glad. Collaboration for great justice! Wikinterpreter
- LOL, I am the primary enforcer of the rule against sarcasm here, so you can relax. I'm almost always in earnest. I use smileys or the like when I think context isn't enough. --Ed Poor 15:05, 13 April 2007 (EDT)
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- for the most part due to the atrocities of the two World Wars (the Holocaust is often seen as the most grievous example of this), although actions such as economic measures which killed many, e.g. the Great Leap Forwards in Maoist China, or the widespread starvation that took place in Imperial Russia 1900-1917 could also construed as mass murder, although they are not as clear-cut
This is unsourced and really just sounds like personal opinion. --Ed Poor 16:06, 13 April 2007 (EDT)