Post by Souriquois on Feb 17, 2017 17:52:31 GMT -4
Politicide is defined as the following:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_politicide
Politicides have resulted in many deaths in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Soviet satellite states, and Columbia in the 20th century.
Advocating mass killing of people because of their political beliefs is not illegal anywhere, but it is quite common on the Internet (ie anthroforums advocating the mass killings of leftists). Also, politicide often happens alongside genocide, or precedes it.
For example, the Criminal Code of Canada:
It is a dangerous concept, and infringes on freedom... and people who advocate these actions are also unhinged. Although I have to admit that there have been times I have been so frustrated with the alt-right types that it has crossed my mind.
What do you think?
Should it be legal?
Killing groups of people because of their political or ideological beliefs. Deliberate physical destruction of a group whose members share the main characteristic of belonging to a political movement; the systematic destruction of such groups is not covered as genocide under the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). The CPPCG only covers the deliberate physical destruction of national, ethnic, racial and religious groups. The social scientists Barbara Harff and Ted R. Gurr uses policide to describe the killing of groups of people who are targeted not because of shared ethnic or communal traits (the types of groups covered by the CPPCG), but because of "their hierarchical position or political opposition to the regime and dominant groups".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_politicide
Politicides have resulted in many deaths in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Soviet satellite states, and Columbia in the 20th century.
Advocating mass killing of people because of their political beliefs is not illegal anywhere, but it is quite common on the Internet (ie anthroforums advocating the mass killings of leftists). Also, politicide often happens alongside genocide, or precedes it.
For example, the Criminal Code of Canada:
318 (1) Every one who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
Definition of genocide
(2) In this section, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part any identifiable group, namely,
(a) killing members of the group; or
(b) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
Marginal note:
Consent
(3) No proceeding for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General.
Definition of identifiable group
(4) In this section, identifiable group means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or mental or physical disability.
Definition of genocide
(2) In this section, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part any identifiable group, namely,
(a) killing members of the group; or
(b) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
Marginal note:
Consent
(3) No proceeding for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General.
Definition of identifiable group
(4) In this section, identifiable group means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or mental or physical disability.
What do you think?
Should it be legal?