There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.
Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
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