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Posted By entrepreneurboss 11 months ago in Political NewsIt is nearly impossible to compile a conclusive ranking of the worst things humans have done to each other. History tends to be somewhat biased, a genocide in one nation?s eyes might be justified as worthy sacrifice in the others. Death counts are also highly varied with equally justifiable counts of the same events differing by so much that it is not possible to decide the event?s rightful rank. My list below takes into the account only those wars which had multiple nations involved, as without such a criteria, a list of greatest ever wars by death toll would be overwhelmed with Chinese and Russian civil unrests.
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sumptuousdigs11 months ago
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The human toll statistics are staggering. It frightens me to have a creeping inkling that humankind is somehow innately balancing the population books. I won't go there.
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More likely, greed, fear, and ignorance (or perhaps laziness, manifested by an adherence to a status-quo), are more likely the suspects. -
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Georgia5011 months ago
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icono111 months ago
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Interesting point.
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Would those deaths be considered coincidental political deaths and therefore not applicable to the premise of the article.
As an example, supposedly the civilian casualty numbers for the battle of Stalingrad ran into the 10's of thousands. Yet they were not considered 'official war deaths' so they did not count in the casualty figures for the Red army.
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