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by jeanluc_discard 1361 days ago
Seeking peace also lines up with what every sane person should want
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Safety and self-determination is what everyone should want.

Peace between nations is only part of the picture. Peace between people and their government is another part.

We could all have world peace between nations tomorrow if every nation capitulated to Russia. But you’d have endless tension between the people and their new Russian authorities.

Giving aggressors what they stole is not going to achieve peace, it's going achieve more aggression.

If you're going to give up something just because someone else has a nuke, then you'll end up giving them everything you have, because they're not going to give up their nukes. They will always have power over you.

Chamberlain had a similar goal at Munich. "Peace for our time," he declared.
If someone punches you in the face then says they simply want peace right after, does that make them a criminal or should you just let bygones be bygones?