Greatest Man-made Tragedy in History -- Nominations

[Sensei]

This isn't even close, its the one that's claimed 40+ million lives

Abortion

As horrific as that is for a pro-lifer, wouldn't events that involved more brutality and greater deaths be better contenders?

     WWII, for instance.

No, I strongly disagree with this statement.  While I disagree with America involving itself in the war, the war was aimed to stop a brutual tyrant.  Abortion is the greatest tragedy because 100% of those deaths are preventable and senseless

ALL of the deaths were preventable and senseless? ALL?

[Matt Damon™]

The holocene extinction and the meltdown of the icecaps which is just beginning.

[Хahar 🤔]

The famine in Bengal during the war was pretty tragic.

I actually don't remember such a famine. Bengal's suffered worse.

1943 - c. 4 million deaths. It is one of the famines that Amartya Sen used as an example of famine being caused by entitlement problems rather than absolute food shortages.

Ah, right. Churchill was as much a mass murderer as any of the other major figures in WWII. I'm more familiar with 1974, though.

[DownWithTheLeft]

ALL of the deaths were preventable and senseless? ALL?

Perhaps not all senseless to some, but they all were preventable