At 02:54 AM 7/22/2006, The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:

My butthole itches, so I'll review another chapter of this story.

 He also had the notion that if wizarding blood were
spread out among all the people, eventually there wouldn't need to be
a distinction between wizards and Muggles, because everyone would be
a wizard.

Genocide by saturation and integration, as opposed to genocide by
extermination. Nice.

It's basically the same as how the Chinese tended to deal with 
invasions from outside...  get 'conquered', and in the course of 
ruling and dominating the people, the conquerors became 
indistinguishable from the rest of the population, probably within 
two or three generations at most.

Also, there are those who would not consider it genocide, but 
uplift.  Little but semantic quibbling, really.

Besides, considering that there have apparently always been 
spontaneously appearing witches and wizards in muggle society, it's 
hard to consider it an obvious genotype for the purpose of 
considerations of genocide.   It would be similar to trying to commit 
genocide based on a voluntary choice, such as whether or not to be a 
Baptist, or to be an observant Jew.  What are the objectively 
distinguishing characteristics or a sleeping wizard, as opposed to a 
sleeping squib, or muggle?  Or as another example, how do you 
distinguish people with perfect pitch, or sensitive tastebuds?

The wizarding trait, when it appears, may be a reinforcible 
recessive, thus subject to Mendelian eugenic conservation, but its 
incidence of appearance is probably nearly uniform across the racial 
types on earth, if you discount the enclaves that are conserving the 
trait.  (wizarding communities). 


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