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by swashboon 1778 days ago
How about we bitch about ALL the war crimes at the same time?
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because nothing gets done that way.
Imagine thinking that you can't simultaneously work to make one thing better while calling out the badness of something else.
You can try that. But you may find you alienate the allies who could help you to make that one thing better, thereby making nothing better. An even-handed approach seems moral, but if all you do is complain equally about everyone who doesn't fit your strict moral standards, you won't do anything useful in the real world. Sometimes, you have to pick a fight and not be too purist about choosing your allies.
Because I have limited empathy and scope insensitivity.

If I'm emotionally burnt out about the crimes of a strongman like Putin who I have zero ability to change how will I put pressure on my local police chief to fire bad cops?

In that way we know that no one is not doing anything about it, and they are not trying to manipulate us. I say that is fair :)

Approved by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1efOs0BsE0g