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#760 Jonathan Maynard - Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides

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The Threats of Mass Killings

In my view, mass killings are never justified. Some people would say that maybe a mass killing could be justified in a kind of supreme emergency. In other cases, the civilians who are targeted by mass killings don't represent a real threat. For violence to be legal and for it to be justified, you need to actually be responding to whether that threat is really extending to groups.

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