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0 pointshexscrews7y ago0 comments

Wouldn't xenocide be a more apt description? A quick search for genocide gives the definition of:

"the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation."

While xenocide is described as:

xenocide (plural xenocides)

The killing of a stranger or foreigner. (science fiction) The genocide of an entire alien species. (US, colloquial) The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenocide

Either is fine really, just seems like a semantic curiosity.

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xkjkls7y ago

Probably -- the problem is that no one actually knows the word xenocide who isn't an Orson Scott Card fan.

garmaine7y ago

Why? Genocide is by derivation the killing or wiping out of a genetic population. Why can’t that be applied to purposeful extinction of an animal species?

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