Dimitry Toukhcher
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Okay.
Are the punishments different based on the crime being conducted?
Yep.
Okay.
So murder and theft would have a different punishment?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Is murder different from assault?
Yeah.
Okay.
So we have a word for assault and we have a word for murder, and they mean different things.
Is genocide and war the same thing?
They should be different, right?
There should be a way, if we're going to be accusing somebody of conducting some kind of a misdeed, there should be a way for us to differentiate between the meaning of words, right?
Okay, innocent and guilty are not the same thing.
Man and woman are not the same thing.
They're just different things, okay?
So if there's a word called genocide, then that word must represent something.
So what should that word represent?
And it should be a very well-defined word because then you should understand what's happening.