On 4 Aug 2002 at 13:44, ben wrote:
> So 15 High school kids is a massacre by popular definition. Fine.
> Would it be a 'massacre' if it was a gang war, and there had been 15
> killed on each side? What if there was 15 killed on one side and only
> 14 on the other? 15:13? 15:10? At what ratio is it a massacre? When
> there are significant numbers of dead on each side (and I think 600 is
> a significant number of corpses) is it still a massacre? Or just a
> whole region of sadly deluded religious victims?
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I choose door # 2. These two Hatfield-McCoy tribes are each both
victimizing ans victims of each other, and the ironic thing about it is that
theparties to the feud are closely genetically related, more so than
either tribe is to any other - you might even call their conflict an
extended family feud. Outside of Jews, the only other community with a
significant rate of Tay-Sach's Disease (which is caused, like sickle cell
anemia, by an inherited genetic defect) is the OTHER Semitic tribe, the
Palestinians.
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