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* deaths due to insufficient regulation (guns for example) | * deaths due to insufficient regulation (guns for example) | ||
* deaths due to pollution | * deaths due to pollution | ||
− | * deaths with distributed responsibility, as in corporations and | + | * deaths with distributed responsibility, as in corporations and racketeering organizations |
I looked for this in Wikipedia, and they have a list of different types of homicide. None correspond to cases such as the Sackler's opioid deaths. Instead we use a passive term "epidemic" that doesn't implicate anyone, let alone corporations and their owners who are the direct cause. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_manslaughter Industrial manslaughter] approaches this idea, but is not nearly inclusive enough. | I looked for this in Wikipedia, and they have a list of different types of homicide. None correspond to cases such as the Sackler's opioid deaths. Instead we use a passive term "epidemic" that doesn't implicate anyone, let alone corporations and their owners who are the direct cause. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_manslaughter Industrial manslaughter] approaches this idea, but is not nearly inclusive enough. | ||
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Possible names: prodicide, lucricide. | Possible names: prodicide, lucricide. | ||
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+ | Kevin Carson (C4SS) has suggested that I expand the definition of "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide democide]", removing the Rummel limitation to state action. Rummel's original meaning could be changed to communistaricide, since his major purpose was anti-communist propaganda. Or more neutrally, imperiacide or regnacide for government action. | ||
== Civic Fundamentalism == | == Civic Fundamentalism == |