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| Shy cannibals. Good people just need to kill all the bad ones |
| 2023-10-18 |
| [Regnum - Google Translate] A grown up from Russia of all places For the second week now, I have been watching how the emotional perception of the conflict is developing, and, finally, I have decided to say something about which I have been silent for the second year. First, Palestinians from Hamas carried out a massacre in southern Israel. And, of course, all the sympathies of ordinary people far from politics were on the side of the Jews. A person who had his own opinion on the Arab-Israeli conflict, different from the generally accepted one of that day, could be branded a cannibal. What are you, for THESE? Then Israel launched massive missile and bomb attacks on Gaza and the same public recoiled from it: well, no, these are good too! The collective Eidelman was now wearing cannibals. And then the charred corpses of headless children were found in the kibbutz. Well, no, the audience said, this is definitely too much, they deserved the bombs right. (Then the investigation begins: were there corpses, were they badly burned? Is it a lot or not enough beheaded children, if there are less than forty of them? And other fascinating fact-checking for gourmets). And then he flies around the hospital. Three hundred corpses. Five hundred. Eight hundred. Thousand! Who is bigger? You are here and I have bad news for you: if your choice of side in a political conflict and in war as its extreme phase is based on the height of the pile of children’s corpses, on which you can confidently lean your position, then the cannibal is not Tamara Eidelman or journalist Mardan, and you. You're just a shy ogre. But no, I don't blame you. Every person wants to be good, and the least expensive way to achieve this is to be on the good side. Where all the good people are. Unite against the bad ones. By the way, good people against bad people usually also organize themselves, showing civic consciousness, horizontal connections and grassroots initiative. Like Hutu versus Tutsi. Or like the heir Tutti and his friends against the Three Fat Men. A sure sign. But I want to upset you: in a political conflict there are no good and bad. There are them vs. us. And their own people can be "good too." But this will not stop them from being their own. It's been ten years since this war turned my life upside down. He means the Ukraine war For me personally, it didn’t even begin on Maidan, but even earlier. But that's a different story. I have lost a lot and continue to lose. I broke many copies, convincing myself and others that I was right. But never, never, my argument in a political dispute was a child’s corpse. I was against the Ukrainians before they killed the first child, and I remained against them after the first child died on the other side of the front. ...I am against Ukrainians not because they are bad, but because they are strangers. And the fact that I am against them does not make me good. It’s just that, due to many complex reasons, which I can argue convincingly for hours, we have contradictions with them on the land issue. They want to bury me in their land, but I don’t want them to walk on my land. ...And everyone we don’t like is Hitler. And everyone who doesn’t like us thinks we’re Hitler. Very comfortably. There is no need to look for a political way out of a political conflict. You just need to kill all the bad ones. What is inconvenient is being responsible. For yourself and for yours. Especially if they did something without asking you. And not only a moral responsibility, but also having washed yourself with a bloody skin, it’s hard not to scream: "What are we for?!" It's inconvenient, but it's necessary. Because everything has its price. And for what goes beyond it, there is a tribunal and a military prosecutor’s office. Everyone just has to do their good work well. Some conflicts don't have a political solution. You Russians didn't negotiate peace with Tatars - you ended Tatar raids by destroying their independent states over centuries |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #2 Carthago Delenda Est! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-10-18 13:21 |
| #1 Back in the day, hippie poet Kenneth Patchen wrote "Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the murder of a sizable number of people to save it." I used to think that was overly cynical. Let's just say my viewpoint has evolved. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2023-10-18 09:57 |