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"Man, I sure don't want my genocidal buddies to think I'm being unfriendly!"
Some decades ago, a stock broker said about carbon emissions: "if I could buy and sell carbon emissions, I would". Since then, carbon emissions have entered the markets, and carbon offsets, and derivatives. It's full of scams, but corporations that want to greenwash their image, do pay for them.
Now... have you seen the market vale of "genocide"? It's $0, meaning "free for all"... that's all corporations understand, then politicians have to follow, or get no funding for the next elections.
Genocide requires weapons and materials, and weapons are VERY lucrative.
Our economic system will find a way to turn anything into an opportunity for profit, death included.
Yes, but if "genocide" had a monetary value, and selling weapons for genocide meant having to pay for the weapons and on top of that for the genocide... then a smaller amount of weapons (and of genocide) could still be as lucrative.
Then just like "carbon offsets", someone could sell "genocide offsets"... maybe by offering shelter to the people getting genocided, or something.