Atrocity
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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 committed 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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List of Atrocities
- 2001-09-11 attacks: approximately 2700 lives lost
- 1956+: Minamata disease
- 1945-08-06 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: approximately 200,000 killed in the (so far) only uses of nuclear weapons against humans
- 1941-1943~ The Holocaust: over 9,000,000 killed
Links
- The Lesser Unpleasantries of the Twentieth Century: wars and mass killings costing fewer lives than the American loss in Vietnam (58,135), but more that the number of murders in America in 1995 (21,597):