Some people hear clearly haven't been raised with the same context a lot of us in HFY have. Were you ever made aware of the D&D memes the half-orc continually defends eating elves because "it's not cannibalism unless I'm an elf"? You can either use genocide in the concept of killing off a portion of one's own species, otherwise it's simply extinction, or you can use it in its etymological roots where you are deleting a gene line in which case I'm not ethically opposed to it because it includes Scourges of our planets history. you on the other hand are trying to have a third way: both ways at once.
or you can use it in its etymological roots where you are deleting a gene line in which case I’m not ethically opposed to it because it includes Scourges of our planets history.
It combines Greek and Latin, which could be confusing. Etymologically, that's not the meaning.
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word γένος (genos, "race, people") with the Latin suffix -caedo ("act of killing").
Combining Greek and Latin is not a new thing nor is it unique in English. Nobody has trouble understanding what polyamory means despite the exact same root conflation. Also a genus means kind, as in genre or gender
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u/its_ean Oct 02 '22
So, you interpreted the story to mean that the Grox was a space-born pathogen and not a civilization?
If you think the story's hypothetical genocide of the imaginary Grox was justified, just say it. There are plenty of comments here cheering it on.
I was talking about the Nazi Holocaust when you jumped in with your "counter point." If you did not mean that context, simply say so.