Because not hearing about atrocities is the same as atrocities not happening.
Normally, people who make slippery-slope arguments want you to think that some relatively innocuous proposal or action will lead to, or is essentially the same as, some world-historical atrocity.
The characteristics of many domestic abusers, she continued – "their sense of power and their presumption that they would never be held accountable for their crimes" – are essentially the same as those people who committed atrocities during the war.
"Probably the same as mine.
Younger Japanese said that while they were appalled by the museum's graphic depictions of individual suffering, they did not view Hiroshima as an atrocity on the same moral level as the Holocaust, because the Japanese were not solely victims.
If the answer is, as I hope, "no", then the dialogues about genocide or atrocities in the same breaths as historical facts meant to justify those acts risks elevating those acts to plausible-but-wrong as opposed to reprehensible, unconscionable and unjustifiable.
First, it is of utmost importance that the Rome Statute's gender sensitivity is translated into national prosecutions to make sure that national proceedings take into account the gender dimension of atrocity crimes to the same extent as the Rome Statute does.
