The Holocaust, the Bosnian genocide and the Rwandan genocide I would not consider “DIY” genocide since they weren’t the result of a single human’s actions, but required support from their society. In contrast, a single competent evil (or mad) wizard is, as Harry put it, an extinction event.
So, just to clarify, by DIY you mean one person effects the entire genocide rather than many people personally involved in the genocide, doing the killing themselves. In a sense, the Y in your DIY is singular, and the Y in mine is plural.
Also, my general schema of “DIY” is that it’s a cheaper but more difficult alternative to the normal approach—which usually involves hiring someone to do your project for you or buying a ready-made product. Since most genocides tend to be executed the hard way—you can’t buy genocide in a box, although some chemical weapons might come close—I felt that genocide is fundamentally a DIY project. It’s just a … fun … project for the whole community, rather than one person. Like building a playground. That kills people. (This is going to a very bad place isn’t it?)
I’m able to accept your definition of DIY, though I still prefer to think that genocides require a certain degree of personal agency from its participants and that second person pronouns can be plural.
The Holocaust, the Bosnian genocide and the Rwandan genocide I would not consider “DIY” genocide since they weren’t the result of a single human’s actions, but required support from their society. In contrast, a single competent evil (or mad) wizard is, as Harry put it, an extinction event.
So, just to clarify, by DIY you mean one person effects the entire genocide rather than many people personally involved in the genocide, doing the killing themselves. In a sense, the Y in your DIY is singular, and the Y in mine is plural.
Also, my general schema of “DIY” is that it’s a cheaper but more difficult alternative to the normal approach—which usually involves hiring someone to do your project for you or buying a ready-made product. Since most genocides tend to be executed the hard way—you can’t buy genocide in a box, although some chemical weapons might come close—I felt that genocide is fundamentally a DIY project. It’s just a … fun … project for the whole community, rather than one person. Like building a playground. That kills people. (This is going to a very bad place isn’t it?)
I’m able to accept your definition of DIY, though I still prefer to think that genocides require a certain degree of personal agency from its participants and that second person pronouns can be plural.