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[–] [email protected] -3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Dude. Use the right word.

You're acting like you've never heard of war before. This kind of killing has happened thousands of times, from the current war to the war in Afghanistan, to the Korean war, to the world wars and beyond. They all involved the indiscriminate killing of civilians.

You may not like war, but both sides actively want to kill each other in this situation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So your excuse is, "War crimes committed in the past in other places like Afghanistan and Korea were not called 'genocide' or properly prosecuted, so we should ignore these ones too and not call a spade a spade?" That's . . . pretty sad. Some of us would actually like the international community to learn from mistakes made in other conflicts.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 18 hours ago

Learn from mistakes, ah, sure. We'll prevent all wars entirely any day now.

Meanwhile Russia has invaded Ukraine, China is eyeing up Taiwan, and there are about a dozen other deadly conflicts going on around the world.

We can dream all we want about a peaceful world, but that's not the way things work in reality. Humans are very good at hating each other.