Genocides

[Wizard of Whatever]

Wo were the worst and greatest killers of their times.?

Communists (Ussr Prc, N Korea, Cambodia, etc.)
Nazis (German and related types)
European colonizers (world wide)
Christians
Muslims
Turks
Mongols
Hutus
Assyrians
Babylonians
Greeks
Romans
Barbarian tribes
Other

 

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Wo were the worst killers of their times.?

People who kill in the name of their gods.

 

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Wo were the worst and greatest killers of their times.?

Communists (Ussr Prc, N Korea, Cambodia, etc.)
Nazis (German and related types)
European colonizers (world wide)
Christians
Muslims
Turks
Mongols
Hutus
Assyrians
Babylonians
Greeks
Romans
Barbarian tribes
Other

The numbers are contingent; i.e., terminator effectiveness surely isn't entailed in the blueprints of an ideology or a lax alliance of self-interests. Shuffle history again and the rankings would probably be different (albeit the same players).

The paradox of paradise (whether socioeconomic, divine, technocratic, cultural or ethnic) -- particularly one that was ruthlessly installed -- is it that it may have to be ruthlessly protected from its [perceived] enemies -- both internal and external.

• ‘Militant democracy’ -- sometimes also called ‘defensive democracy’ or ‘fighting democracy’ -- refers to the idea of a democratic regime which is willing to adopt pre-emptive, prima facie illiberal measures to prevent those aiming at subverting democracy with democratic means from destroying the democratic regime. The intuition behind militant democracy is at least as old as St Just’s famous principle of ‘no liberty for the enemies of liberty’.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

With reference to the democracies you mention, one really has to watch his boundaries and gray areas. Some protection may be valid, while others may not.