cyberdora wrote:
an unbiased view of the Ukraine situation which pretty much says what I've been trying to say. Now I'm out.
Oh enough. I have had enough of spending my life tolerating people who advocate "unbiased" this, "moderate" that. Do you know how
biased you have to be to think this is a Both Sides conflict? Being neutral in this conflict is a sign of many things, but it is NOT a sign of objectivity.
People, mainly on the right and center, have this obnoxious tendency to act like having a strong opinion is a sign of bias or irrationality. The opposite is true. We live in a society that kisses those people's asses because we, as a society, lack the courage to stand up and say: "Yes both sides are imperfect, but one side is still infinitely more to blame than the other."
People's refusal to take sides in the name of "objectivity" is nothing but a sign of moral spinelessness. Sometimes one side is right, the other is wrong, and you're wrong for suggesting both sides have something valuable to say. They don't. No Putin or Trump apologist has anything worth saying on the subject. Sorry if my moral certainty is upsetting to those who would equate the bully with the victim
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Δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν.
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