# formulaone, you are fooling no one **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 10, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formulaone-you-are-fooling-no-one/655358 "2013-04-10T22:52:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 110
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formulaone-you-are-fooling-no-one/655358/110 "2013-04-11T09:15:08Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > That is just not what genocide is. Genocide means _actually killing people_ of a certain race, so that there are none (or very few of them) left. Actually that’s not so. From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide): > [@](#): > > Genocide is “the deliberate and systematic destruction of, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group”, though what constitutes enough of a “part” to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars.While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” Note the last two especially. However, a subgroup vanishing just because the people involved willingly have children with other groups _isn’t_ genocide. It’s just something that happens; groups come, they go. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formulaone-you-are-fooling-no-one/655358)._