Genocide is by far one of the worst moral crimes. Therefore, it is a disgrace that someone would actually start a genocide. Genocide is sometimes known as a subject of social science. It is the intention to murder people, there’s no way around it. Genocide is all about planning out mass murders and knowing that you are doing it. To conclude, genocides need to be stopped and people should try to get along more rather than trying to be better than the other person.
The term genocide can mean many different things, it just depends on how people view it. When Raphael Lemkin first started his international law, he wasn’t broad enough. Raphael needed to be more broad about the eight stages of genocide so he decided to fix it. Geneva conventions made it an international crime for the murder of POWs. Lemkin decided on -genos because it means race or tribe. Then Lemkin decided to add -cide because it means “killer” or act of “killing”. Therefore, the word genocide was born. In the end, Raphael Lemkin knew what he was doing during the making of the word …show more content…
tried to warn people that Stalin was starving people and sending them to other countries. The government of the U.S. never acknowledged to the public that they knew anything. The U.S. didn’t even respond in any meaningful way. The U.S. saw it as if we aren’t involved, then we don’t need to get involved and lose troops. The American press denied in front of everyone, that they didn’t get told anything from the Ukrainians. The U.S. didn’t want to have any involvement and if people knew that the U.S. knew, then they would expect the U.S. to do something. All in all, the U.S. didn’t want to get in the middle of a giant genocide that was