You are throwing the mode of government and the outcomes of government on one big pile, but I don’t think you can. Even under a dictatorship people can reasonab

You are throwing the mode of government and the outcomes of government on one big pile, but I don’t think you can. Even under a dictatorship people can reasonably expect access to basic human rights. Putin seems to be depriving his people of even that. There are basic rules of human decency which we as a species have agreed to in the form of human rights, people may choose an alternate mode of government to democracy (and this is always a choice on some level, no dictatorship can rule an entirely unwilling populace), but nothing they choose can morally deny them their human rights.