pkt on Nostr: > Your whole premise here is that Ukrainians are inherently morally superior to ...
> Your whole premise here is that Ukrainians are inherently morally superior to Russians
Huh? I've repeatedly made very specific, clear, arguments as to why things Russians (and people working for Russia) have done are evil. I do that precisely because I'm making the argument that it is good for those people to be killed. Those arguments have nothing to do with the identity of who does the killing. It is just as ethical for me to assassinate a Russian general as it is for anyone else to do so. The argument isn't that Ukrainians are morally superior and get to do evil things. The argument is that the things they're doing aren't evil because of who they're intending to kill.
Just the other day multiple drones were flown into apartment buildings in Kazan, Russia, a city of 1 million people, ~600km east of Moscow. That city is well known for its large airplane and helicopter manufacturing plants. Obvious, high-value, militarily relevant targets.
The attacks are almost certainly intentional. This residential apartment got hit twice in almost exactly the same spot:
It doesn't matter who flew those drones into those residential buildings; it's not ethical to do that because "Ukrainians are perfect" or some other nonsense like that. It's ethical to blow up apartments in Russia because the people being killed are evil and need to die. In this case, it's likely that Ukraine had specific intelligence that a high value target (eg a plant manager) lived in that specific apartment. But even there, part of what makes this attack ethical is the majority of the bystanders are Russian adults in an industrial city, who themselves are valid military targets.
You don't need to be Ukrainian to ethically do this attack. It's likely that some of these drone attacks are actually being done by non-ukrainians, launched from other countries bordering Russia, as well as Russia itself; the distances some of these attacks have been done at aren't easily accomplished by launching from Ukraine. Whomever is launching these drones is doing the right thing. Not because of their ethnicity. But because of who is being killed.
Huh? I've repeatedly made very specific, clear, arguments as to why things Russians (and people working for Russia) have done are evil. I do that precisely because I'm making the argument that it is good for those people to be killed. Those arguments have nothing to do with the identity of who does the killing. It is just as ethical for me to assassinate a Russian general as it is for anyone else to do so. The argument isn't that Ukrainians are morally superior and get to do evil things. The argument is that the things they're doing aren't evil because of who they're intending to kill.
Just the other day multiple drones were flown into apartment buildings in Kazan, Russia, a city of 1 million people, ~600km east of Moscow. That city is well known for its large airplane and helicopter manufacturing plants. Obvious, high-value, militarily relevant targets.
The attacks are almost certainly intentional. This residential apartment got hit twice in almost exactly the same spot:
It doesn't matter who flew those drones into those residential buildings; it's not ethical to do that because "Ukrainians are perfect" or some other nonsense like that. It's ethical to blow up apartments in Russia because the people being killed are evil and need to die. In this case, it's likely that Ukraine had specific intelligence that a high value target (eg a plant manager) lived in that specific apartment. But even there, part of what makes this attack ethical is the majority of the bystanders are Russian adults in an industrial city, who themselves are valid military targets.
You don't need to be Ukrainian to ethically do this attack. It's likely that some of these drone attacks are actually being done by non-ukrainians, launched from other countries bordering Russia, as well as Russia itself; the distances some of these attacks have been done at aren't easily accomplished by launching from Ukraine. Whomever is launching these drones is doing the right thing. Not because of their ethnicity. But because of who is being killed.