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{{DES | des = [[R. J. Rummel]]'s term for "killing of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder".  It conveniently excludes private and commercial killing, especially by slow causes such as [[The Tobacco Industry|tobacco]] and [[pollution]].  It also conveniently overlooks lives saved by the efforts of the same governments.  Democide numbers are much smaller than the numbers of lives saved by government eradication of smallpox, let alone other [[vaccination]],  potable [[water]] and [[Sewers|sewerage projects]]. | show=}}
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{{DES | des = [[R. J. Rummel]]'s term for "killing of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder".  It conveniently excludes much larger private and commercial killing such as drug deaths, especially by slow causes such as [[The Tobacco Industry|tobacco]] and [[pollution]].  It also conveniently overlooks lives saved by the efforts of the same governments.  Democide numbers are much smaller than the numbers of lives saved by government eradication of smallpox (which killed an estimated 500 million in its last century of existence), let alone other [[vaccination]],  potable [[water]], [[Sewers|sewerage projects]] and other [[Public Health]] measures. | show=}}
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Democide's definition should be expanded to include private and commercial killing and harms.  This is because there is no separate term for private and commercial killings.  Since definitions are established by usages, I will start here.
 
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