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TIL I learned that we should feel bad for the Russian soldiers being blown up, and not the thousands of Ukrainian citizens, including children, that Russian sol
by gamblor956 4y ago
TIL I learned that we should feel bad for the Russian soldiers being blown up, and not the thousands of Ukrainian citizens, including children, that Russian soldiers have blown up.
- snovymgodym 4y agoI don't know what to tell you. War is sad and gruesome. It's sad for the Ukrainian civilians being killed and it's sad for for the Russian mobiks who are sent to the trenches to be HIMARS-fodder. I'm glad Russia is having a hard time with their war. I'm not glad that thousands of young men are being sent into a meat grinder.
- fwlr 4y agoI did not say we should feel bad for Russian soldiers dying (though we should), and I definitely did not say we should not feel bad for Ukrainian children dying (we definitely should). I said we should not celebrate videos of Russian soldiers dying in particularly gruesome ways, an instance of the more general moral principle that death and suffering are bad. This is what I meant about the moral imperative of Ukrainian victory overriding other moral concerns.