Legal systems have a killing power comparable to gas chambers and missiles

Evidence

Juridicality—by its very nature as an apparatus of legality, as a socially pervasive system, one run by publicly manifest lawyers, judges, and ruling institutions—may possess, precisely by virtue of this nature, a more easily detectable structure of thought than that of a gas chamber, a nuclear missile, or even a race theory, but juridicality has nonetheless a similar power of decimation, in the sense I shall outline momentarily. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 404

Categorization

• QUESTION: Hallaq’s claim that juridicality has a ‘power of decimation’ comparable to the Holocaust or nuclear weapons needs unpacking — what exactly is the decimation mechanism he has in mind?