"The genocide is fine, if its legal in the country where it occurs" one is interesting:
Under Nazi law, being Jewish was essentially illegal. So was being homosexual.
After the war, the former was understood as genocide, but the latter wasn't, because - as I understand it - pre- and post- Nazi penal codes still defined homosexuality as illegal.
On this, I've often wondered what someone who was both Jewish and gay would say and where they would fit.
More generally, it's about different understandings - what is murder, rape, psychopathy etc, and are they universals?
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Under Nazi law, being Jewish was essentially illegal. So was being homosexual.
After the war, the former was understood as genocide, but the latter wasn't, because - as I understand it - pre- and post- Nazi penal codes still defined homosexuality as illegal.
On this, I've often wondered what someone who was both Jewish and gay would say and where they would fit.
More generally, it's about different understandings - what is murder, rape, psychopathy etc, and are they universals?
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