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[–] Nahvi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

there’d be no invasion to defend against in the first place if not for the military power of genocidal war criminals like Putin

I completely agree though with a caveat. I can't imagine a just way we would completely eliminate people like Putin.

The only way I could imagine is becoming the most oppressive and dominating force and pointing our weapons at anyone that glances at other territories. Incidentally, I think this pretty much what we did for 40 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, which explains the era of relative peace we are coming out of. Not that there was ever true peace, but mostly the world powers only played their proxy war games in much smaller nations.

I also think that Zelinski is finding emergency war powers a very useful tool to suppress political opposition and otherwise further his own political power.

I have been noticing the same.

[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I completely agree though with a caveat. I can't imagine a just way we would completely eliminate people like Putin.

You institutionalize them instead of giving them the keys to castels. Vikings turned their psychopaths into their most vicious fighters and isolated them from the rest, we decided to put them into positions of power both goepolitically and economically, then glorified them and it's now killing us. Before that psychopaths have been described and usually killed off on the spot. If we ever get to be a space fairing civilization it might be smart to utilize them as resource allocators on multi generation ships as their lack of empathy could actually benefit the survival of the whole in those situations but not when we allow them to use accumulation of wealth as their tool as it drains everyone's resources.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Before that psychopaths have been described and usually killed off on the spot.

What a naive misreading of history. What mythical era do you think this happened in?

[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you stupid? You know The Unscrupulous Man described in Ancient Greece? Countless times throughout early history they are frequently described based on their personality types and ways to "deal" with them....

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Menelaus: "Am I a joke to you??"

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