ABSTRACT
Moral agency is central to the definition of the crime of genocide: any act committed with the intention to destroy a group, in whole or in part. The best and the brightest practitioners of public health used eugenics and social Darwinism to "improve" public health. The sordid history of public health's role in genocide teaches people that they need a Code of Ethics to keep them from doing harm on "behalf of the greater good". The prediction and prevention of genocide is not a spectator sport. Those engaged in genocide prevention should develop and apply public health-based models for the control of preventable diseases for the prediction and prevention of genocide and politicide. Members of groups singled out for genocidal persecution should be singled out for protection from these threats. Redefine Word Pollution as unacceptable just as 19th-century European public health leaders redefined water pollution as unacceptable. Zero Tolerance for Incitement is Imperative.
