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You don't think it cheapens the word "genocide" just a bit to lump an ant hill cast and the holocaust under the same umbrella term?
Technically it's the same, but if we want to apply emotion to human genocide, then what word would we alternatively use to describe eradicating a colony of beings we don't care enough about?
Gonna be honest here.
I dont care enough to have a whole ass word.
I see you're point, I was a bit hasty when saying there's no good reason to make an exception.
I still do not agree with the argument that 'Ants are a superorganism, so it's not really a genocide'. For humans it's a genocide, because we're trying to describe a social crime within humanity. For everything else, extermination is communicating the same thing, but generically.