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Originally Posted by jayswin
I understand the context of this war and who the aggressor and bad guy is, but it has still jilted me a little seeing Undercoverbrother's constant cheering posts for Russian soldiers killed. 
I mean they're still human beings that are likely indoctrinated and forced into this, and even likely lied to while preparing about what they're fighting for and/or doing.
Wanting one side to win is one thing, and yes wanting one side to win means soldiers killed on the other side, and that's fine because we're like all on a similar page in that respect. But the actual fist pump style cheer post of those deaths has been slightly off-putting for me. |
For me, approaching the whole thing with a very cold attitude is a defense mechanism.
I'm a firm believer that most of the good and evil in the world is a creation of circumstances. I understand that the war is very quickly turning perfectly average young boys who just happened to get drafted in the the army into violent, cruel and even bloodthirsty creatures, that the vast majority of the people committing atrocities in Ukraine in 2022 could have in other circumstances gone their whole lives never doing anything particularly awful. Many of them could likely have been called good kids. Some of them could have turned out to be great men.
...but I just don't have that much empathy in me. I'm already blocking off most of my emotions about this war and actively avoiding things that would break that bubble.
Those young men are now both collectively and individually doing unspeakably evil things, and rationally it would be better for most people if they either died, surrendered, or ran off as quickly as possible, and I don't have the energy to differentiate between those three things.
This stuff is why war is a tragedy and a crime. It's dehumanizing and destroys individuality.