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  • I guess I might as well argue with a stone instead of an American about universal moral values but here goes nothing:

    Wait, did I just judge a person by their membership of a group they got randomly assigned at birth which says nothing about their character?

    Anyways…

    The suffering of one person is not justification to inflict the same on others. Secondly why are you refusing to help people through hardship in the first place.

    Let me ask you in return: Why are neither deserving of your help?


  • Hell no, and I don’t care if that person is black, white, blue, has an American, French or Iraqi passport.

    But you are trying to build a strawman here, because babysitting is not the same as granting people shelter from hardships.

    And to loop back to your previous statements regarding the number of crimes committed by immigrants: Am I statistically more likely to get murdered by an immigrant or by a fellow country man? You might have to reconsider your approach towards high/low threat environments in your everyday life.



  • So you want to assign every immigrant a babysitter till they have been evaluated to be no risk?

    While we are at it, might just as well give EVERYONE a government sponsored supervisor to be sure, because I’ve heard even some of those people already here rape, murder or commit other crimes. All in the name of the security of our state. I guess we should form some sort of ministry to supervise this effort. I guess Ministry for State Security might be fitting.

    Do you even realize how contemptuous your idea is? I don’t know anything about you, but I guess to be sure you won’t kill me should you ever visit my city/county/state/planet, I will put you in a cage and point a camera at you.

    I hope you keep your idea in mind should you plan to take your next vacation anywhere but your own apartment.












  • UKR may not have the luxury of triaging a bunch of people into non combat roles

    I don’t think it’s a luxury but a necessity. A soldier having an utter mental breakdown may become a thread to his own comrades. Of course, there is a difference between people being unable and people being unwilling to fight.

    I don’t think anyone really knows how they’re going to react in that situation until they’re in it

    It’s one of those rare, unknowable situations. One of my colleagues at university was an ex-soldier. He said he’s seen hulks of men break down after their first combat situation, and unlikely people taking charge in dangerous situations.


  • I do not think they should be either and my comment stems not from disdain. But sitting in a trench with the enemy converging on your position is not the place to ponder moral dilemma.

    On the other hand I just read on Wikipedia that objection to military service on moral grounds is near impossible in Ukraine. This of course puts these people doubly in a position they should not be chastised for.

    I imagne that there is ample room for drafted to be assigned to essential noncombat rolles in and outside the military. So a compromise should be possible: Force people into the war effort but not by handing them a weapon.