I’m very unemotional, but humanity is my soft spot and I’ve been very disheartened and at a loss these past few days. It’s hard to wrap my head around how people can do this to one another, then the reactions of those uninvolved. I can’t believe people can take such stances on these things.
Gunning down innocent people (including children)? Unacceptable and genocide justifying.
Exploding innocent people (including children) from a distance using bombs manufactured and sold for profit? No problem, carry on, we won’t even report it.
I guess the real crime was “not spending enough money” and not all the murder.
It’s been this way for a long time. The terror bombing of German and Japanese cities and the way it was justified and seen as different from the atrocities the axis committed against civilians has caused the West to become brutal in a way it is blind to.
This isn’t a black and white moral issue in which something can be declared “justified” or “unjustified” and that’s the end of the matter.
The razing of cities has been seen as just and unjust by various people over human history. However, if the razing of axis cities has been conducted in the old fashioned way, by killing men women and children with hand held weapons, instead of bombs dropped from a distance, then the ≈650,000 deaths that resulted might be viewed differently.
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