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by throw0101c 142 days ago
> No piece of dirt or earth is worth dying for, ever.

If no one ever defends the dirt, the pieces of earth where you can enjoy a drink in peace and freedom will shrink over time as the aggressors will continue to gobble up land because of the lack of defending.

They keep moving forward, you keep moving back, until you have no where to retreat to.
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user205738 141 days ago
Come back to this comment in a few years and think about whether something significant has changed for those people who did not sacrifice their lives for a meaningless battle.

People are more important than the state. If they are not ready to defend him, why should they be forced? You can offer money or other valuables in return, such as fame, a pension, or a position, but if a person doesn't want to, why should they do it?

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throw0101c 140 days ago
> Come back to this comment in a few years and think about whether something significant has changed for those people who did not sacrifice their lives for a meaningless battle.

My family is from Eastern Europe: if people had not fought "meaningless" battles then the land would have been ruled by genocidal maniacs. As it stand my grandmother almost ended up in an oven.

My very existence is the result of the battles having meaning, that people fighting matters.

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user205738 136 days ago
There is a significant difference.

Nothing will change for an ordinary person now.

At that time, the Genplan OST implied the almost complete extermination and the enslavement of a small number of the remaining people.

And also going back to the second part of the top commentary. At that time, people had a great motivation to defend their homeland and their loved ones. The survival of the country and the survival of the people in it were inextricably linked.

The current conflict has no such connection. The existence or cessation of the existence of the state is not related to the existence of people in it. Many of whom found life in a completely different country.

There were already volunteers, mercenaries, those who fell for a good salary. Why force those who actively avoid it?

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