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"If you say that this invasion is wrong in an absolute sense, then all invasions are wrong" "okay, all invasions are wrong" "Wait if all invasions are wrong,
by serverlessmom 5y ago
"If you say that this invasion is wrong in an absolute sense, then all invasions are wrong"
"okay, all invasions are wrong"
"Wait if all invasions are wrong, then even border disputes are wrong, and so conflicts over territory are wrong"
"okay, conflict over state 'territory' is immoral"
"Wait wait wait, if you say that ALL state conflict over territory, then the violent enforcement of borders is wrong"
"okay, border enforcement is wrong"
"Now we're really off track: if enforcing borders is wrong then state control of lands is wrong, and states need to control lands and territory to enforce property"
"okay, the ownership of land is wrong"
"So you're saying that no one should get a piece of paper saying they own property? That charging rent and violently enforcing ownership is wrong? Gosh that would mean the whole state system was based on immoral feudal concepts, that it's a preservation of an oligarchy that has sin at its very core!!"
"okay."
- mikewarot 5y ago"No-one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise," Winston Churchill observed in 1947. "Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." So, you have a Democracy being overturned. You have death and degradation of human life. So much suffering and misery. So much destruction of property and materiel. Clearly, it is wrong. To top it off, the cause is so unjustifiable. This is all so that one Autocrat can fulfill his dream of being the person who restored the Russian Empire. He has failed, already. There's no winning for him now, even if Ukraine falls, he can't hold it.