War Genocide Distinction

Guardrails

• Structural comparison is not moral equivalence.
• Similarity in metaphor form is not equivalence in political content, institutional setting, or historical outcome.
• Enemy construction, endpoint, violence logic, and historical enactment matter centrally.
• Each case remains historically contextualized and evidence-bound.
• Comparator cases without support ratings remain pending, not inferred by analogy.
• War, genocide, enslavement, colonial violence, and state terror require separate historical and moral description even when symbolic structures overlap.

The comparison protocol distinguishes war preservation, imperial mobilization, revolutionary founding, and genocidal racial state violence by endpoint, enemy construction, violence logic, and historical enactment. Similar metaphor forms never establish moral equivalence.