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Originally Posted by privateer
Mass Murder is a term Man created and uses as the proclaimer sees fit.
If I had a tank full of Seas Monkeys and dumped it because I was tired of them.
Does that make me a Mass Murderer?
When you get rid of an Ant Hill are you then a Mass Murderer?
I stomp on Spiders when I can.
Have my whole life.
Am I a Serial Killer?
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Sure. What's a title, but a handle by which we hang moral judgement arbitrarily? Stalin was a mass-murderer at the same time Hitler was the savior of the Aryan race. Hirohito was the Son of Heaven at who's command perhaps millions of Chinese were killed, but Roosevelt was the Western Imperialist who sought to deprive Japan of her rightful place in the world by stifling the tools her people needed to survive.
It's all perspective and angle. History accepts that two of those were mass murderers, one a leader exploited by his military, and the last a great president.