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Originally Posted by well named
genocide: the systematic eradication of an ethnic group
good: morally permissible
By those definitions, I believe that it is logically possible for an act to be both an act of genocide and morally permissible.
Having said that, I believe that in order for the genocide to be morally permissible, the eradication of the group has to be based on the IMMORAL BEHAVIOR of the ethnic group, and not merely because they ARE a certain ethnic group. If possible, I would give members of that group the opportunity to repent of their immoral behavior. Anyone who repented would be spared destruction.
Someone who knows the Old Testament better than I do might be able to confirm or deny my understanding that in all cases in which God ordered the slaughter of an entire people-group, members of that group were given ample time to repent and avoid destruction.