Comments on: From Genocide to Altmed http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07/from-genocide-to-altmed/ Two lawyers on law, legislation and liberty. And other stuff. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:52:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: skepticlawyer http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07/from-genocide-to-altmed/#comment-13443 skepticlawyer Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:47:38 +0000 http://skepticlawyer.com.au/?p=795#comment-13443 Adrien, you are a star. And JG, that is a very good question. I am uncomfortable with collapsing 'population transfer' into 'genocide', which to my mind should be reserved for mass killing. The problem is, there is no <i>good</i> way to effect an ethnic divorce where the warring populations are intermingled. Not everyone is as lucky as the Czechs and Slovaks, who could effect a geographical divorce. Adrien, you are a star.

And JG, that is a very good question. I am uncomfortable with collapsing ‘population transfer’ into ‘genocide’, which to my mind should be reserved for mass killing. The problem is, there is no good way to effect an ethnic divorce where the warring populations are intermingled. Not everyone is as lucky as the Czechs and Slovaks, who could effect a geographical divorce.

]]> By: Adrien http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07/from-genocide-to-altmed/#comment-13433 Adrien Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:55:32 +0000 http://skepticlawyer.com.au/?p=795#comment-13433 <blockquote>Bad poetry is undoubtedly on the cards,</blockquote> Okay A lot of people say that I criminal with my clubs and my Alsations But that is lie; we are good it was fault of Muslim and Croations But now I don't machine gun grandmas and babies no more, I heal With my crystal pyramids and my orange peel You asked for it. :)

Bad poetry is undoubtedly on the cards,

Okay

A lot of people say that I criminal with my clubs and my Alsations

But that is lie; we are good it was fault of Muslim and Croations

But now I don’t machine gun grandmas and babies no more, I heal

With my crystal pyramids and my orange peel

You asked for it. :)

]]> By: John Greenfield http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07/from-genocide-to-altmed/#comment-13386 John Greenfield Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:08:42 +0000 http://skepticlawyer.com.au/?p=795#comment-13386 I am being sincere when I ask this, but is "ethnic cleansing" always the vilest of crimes and never justified or even desirable? I don't mean killing people or genocide like this Karasicko, I mean population transfers of groups of people who are involved in hideous war organised according to their ethnicities. For example Turkey and Greece in the 1920s and India/Pakistan in the 1940s? Correct me if I'm wrong but the term "ethnic cleansing" only really came into popular usage during the 1990s Balkans Crisis, but now it is routinely retrojected onto all sorts of conflicts going back to the dawn of time. Surely, there are occasions when this is preferable to just letting the two sides keep killing each other until one side wins? I am being sincere when I ask this, but is “ethnic cleansing” always the vilest of crimes and never justified or even desirable? I don’t mean killing people or genocide like this Karasicko, I mean population transfers of groups of people who are involved in hideous war organised according to their ethnicities. For example Turkey and Greece in the 1920s and India/Pakistan in the 1940s?

Correct me if I’m wrong but the term “ethnic cleansing” only really came into popular usage during the 1990s Balkans Crisis, but now it is routinely retrojected onto all sorts of conflicts going back to the dawn of time.

Surely, there are occasions when this is preferable to just letting the two sides keep killing each other until one side wins?

]]> By: skepticlawyer http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07/from-genocide-to-altmed/#comment-13327 skepticlawyer Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:47:20 +0000 http://skepticlawyer.com.au/?p=795#comment-13327 Bad poetry is undoubtedly on the cards, Steve. Bad poetry is undoubtedly on the cards, Steve.

]]> By: DeusExMacintosh http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07/from-genocide-to-altmed/#comment-13326 DeusExMacintosh Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:44:57 +0000 http://skepticlawyer.com.au/?p=795#comment-13326 That Karadzic defence in full: "It could have been worse, it could have been <i>us</i>!" That Karadzic defence in full: “It could have been worse, it could have been us!”

]]> By: melaleuca http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07/from-genocide-to-altmed/#comment-13297 melaleuca Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:25:57 +0000 http://skepticlawyer.com.au/?p=795#comment-13297 I wonder if he's written a poem about his military exploits. I wonder if he’s written a poem about his military exploits.

]]> By: DeusExMacintosh http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2008/07/from-genocide-to-altmed/#comment-13288 DeusExMacintosh Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:38:01 +0000 http://skepticlawyer.com.au/?p=795#comment-13288 You have to admit, alternative therapy is the last place you'd look for a medically qualified psychiatrist. You have to admit, alternative therapy is the last place you’d look for a medically qualified psychiatrist.

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