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> if he comes for my family and home, I will fight for them fiercely But why not compromise instead? It’d be less violence for your family.

• kcplate 4y ago
  You seem to be misunderstanding the scope in my argument. My choices for my family are at a local level, but i would not expect/demand someone in say, Singapore to make a decision that would result in the death of someone in Denmark, on behalf of my family.
  • chrisseaton 4y ago
    But if you can understand why you wouldn’t want to compromise, can you not understand why the Ukrainians don’t want to compromise either?
    • kcplate 4y ago
      Of course I understand why they don’t want to compromise. Their scope is local, but my scope is global. The problem is the level of sacrifice required in a worldwide conflict that may include nuclear to “take Putin out” only solves the problem of a single man. It doesn’t create a lasting solution because it doesn’t correct human nature. It doesn’t prevent the next worse tyrant. In fact it makes tyranny much more likely because the possibility of many tyrants that will come from the one.