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* great harm is committed to many people
 
* great harm is committed to many people
 
* relatively few people benefit from the act
 
* relatively few people benefit from the act
* those who committed the act are among those who committed it
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* those who benefit from the act are among those who committed it
 
* those who committed the act did so knowing that it was causing harm
 
* those who committed the act did so knowing that it was causing harm
 
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==List of Atrocities==
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* [[atrocities]]: listings and accounts of individual atrocities
* 2007-08-14 [[wikipedia:2007 Kahtaniya bombings|2007 Kahtaniya bombings]] in [[Iraq]]: possibly 500 killed
 
* [[2001-09-11 attacks]]: approximately 2700 lives lost
 
* 1956+: [[wikipedia:Minamata disease|Minamata disease]]
 
* 1945-08-06 [[wikipedia:Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]: approximately 200,000 killed in the (so far) only uses of nuclear weapons against humans
 
* 1941-1943~ [[wikipedia:The Holocaust|The Holocaust]]: over 9,000,000 killed
 
 
 
 
==Links==
 
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* [http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat5.htm The Lesser Unpleasantries of the Twentieth Century]: wars and mass killings costing fewer lives than the American loss in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] (58,135), but more that the number of murders in America in 1995 (21,597):
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===Reference===
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* {{!in|wikipedia}}: no equivalent page as of 2009-05-25
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* {{wiktionary}}
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* {{!in|conservapedia}}: no equivalent page as of 2009-05-25
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* {{!in|dkosopedia}}: no equivalent page as of 2009-05-25; see [[dkosopedia:Special:Search/Atrocity|search]]
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* {{!in|sourcewatch}}: no equivalent page as of 2009-05-25; see [[sourcewatch:Special:Search/Atrocity|search]]

Latest revision as of 01:41, 26 May 2009

Overview

An atrocity is (tentatively) defined as any act satisfying all of the following conditions:

  • great harm is committed to many people
  • relatively few people benefit from the act
  • those who benefit from the act are among those who committed it
  • those who committed the act did so knowing that it was causing harm
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  • atrocities: listings and accounts of individual atrocities

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