[missedthecue]

Do we really need to apply the term genocide to groups that aren't even human? Or is that an emotional appeal?

Have you ever met a turkey in real life? Not the wild ones, the domestic breeds. They are so stupid that they will drown in their own water feeder if you don't keep an eye on them.

[codetrotter]

> Have you ever met a turkey in real life? Not the wild ones, the domestic breeds. They are so stupid that they will drown in their own water feeder if you don't keep an eye on them.

Another reason to not support the meat industry.

[stirfish]

>Do we really need to apply the term genocide to groups that aren't even human?

No.

[missedthecue]

Then you do not know what a genocide is.

[stirfish]

If genocide to you only means "mass killing", then I can understand where you are coming from. There's no turkey culture being eradicated, no turkey books burned; only food being produced.

[missedthecue]

Every definition of genocide I can find online specially includes the term "people".

[goldenkey]

The word genocide literally means racial killing from the latin geno (race) + cide (kill.) It has nothing to do with people except in how it's commonly used. Dictionaries aren't a ground truth or some ultimate reference, they are merely assistive.

[sweenycod]

> It has nothing to do with people except in how it's commonly used

I have no idea where you got this idea, but I have never read it anywhere.

I think you're trying to use a literal translation of parts of a neoclassical compound. Etymology is scarcely _literal_, because words from classical languages like Greek and Latin (and even modern languages such as German) do not always _directly_ translate to English (look up the literal translation of the German word 'brustwarzen' for example). The literal translation from Spanish "de nada" to English is "of nothing" but that is not how language works. Instead, the meaning is translated to "you are welcome." Regardless, 'genocide' is not a Greek word. It is a neoclassical compound that uses with the Greek prefix genos- (race or tribe), and the Latin suffix -caedo (to kill). The word was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe where he says it is "a new term and new conception for destruction of nations" (https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml). Neoclassical compounds do not necessarily carry the full context of the sum of their parts and are generally created to have a single meaning. Similarly, Joost Meerlo coined the neologism "menticide" (mind-kill) to which he admitted that he followed the etymology used by the UN to form the legal definition of genocide (see https://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_anal...).