Genocide Can Be Just?

I would like to reflect on the last week and specifically, the end of our conversation on Friday about genocide. Although it is possible to reason from the side of perpetrators, it is difficult to believe that anyone could actually argue for genocide and I was quite startled that the topic even came up. It is easy for us, who have never seen or been part of something so horrible, to say that genocide is necessary because of overpopulation or whatever other reason. Genocide is not something to joke about and if it were turned on us, a genocide occured in the United States, I don't believe that we would be talking about it in this way. Overpopulation is not an excuse to murder an ethnic, racial, or religious group.

I feel very strongly in this way, yet I am also someone who believes that genocide is part of the world and will continue to occur, especially as world interests, interdependence, and economic differences become more crucial in how people and countries interact. The ideology of one group will always rule over that of another sometimes for reasons unknown even to them.

I think that we dwelt on the subject of power, money, and security a little too much this week. It is a subject that needs to be discussed, but eventually the discussion becomes very opinion oriented and steers away from how the world actually works. It is important to pick out as specific examples as possible in our discussions, because there really are different sides and different actions that could suppor many positions, but without a fact, they are invalid.