I couldn’t force my adult daughter to flee with me, so I think it would be obvious that I was talking about her as a child.
You couldn’t ‘force’ your daughter to flee with you now, at 14, if the state was trying to keep her for conscription purposes, as the only way you can ‘force’ her now is either by physical force (which would not be viable over fleeing an entire country unless you live a very short trunk ride to the border) or by the coercive apparatus of the state (ie filing a missing persons’ report if she runs off).
Look, I get that you currently think that I support genocide because, as a parent whose biggest fear in life is his child dying would do anything to stop that from happening, but I think you need to take a step back and a deep breath and think about what I’m saying here and what you expect of me.
I expect that “Literally anything and everything” be off the table as an acceptable sacrifice.
Let’s say your biggest fear in the world was being in the room with a dog and someone started telling you that if you didn’t get in a room with a dog, you held an evil genocide-supporting position?
It’s good that you bring up fear of dogs - I have very severe arachnophobia. I can’t stay in the same room as a spider, no matter how harmless. I can’t even look at a spider, real, photographed, or drawn, without panicking. If I said that ANY cost was worth me not having to go into a room full of spiders from floor to ceiling, and someone pointed out “What about an actual and serious risk of genocide being committed because you didn’t”, for me to hold that any cost was worth me not going into that room would be evil and in support of genocide, without a doubt.
I can’t not be terrified of something that terrifies me.
This is true.
I can’t not do whatever is in my power to stop the thing that terrifies me from happening.
So by your argument, if someone feared being poor, more than anything in the world, they would be helpless to stop themselves from stepping on anyone and causing any amount of mass deaths in pursuit of remaining rich, and it would not be alright for anyone to call them evil for that?
After all, preservation of one’s own wellbeing transcends not only species but kingdoms.
Good for you if you can, I don’t have that sort of bravery and I would suggest that most people do not have that sort of bravery or there wouldn’t be things like therapy for irrational phobias.
I would say most people don’t make apologia for their phobias.