If conscription is slavery and war is mass murder, then supporting these while opposing private theft is hypocrisy. All aggression, regardless of actor, must be condemned.
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what if your tribe is under threat, it’d be hypocritical to pretend you can defend your private property without a tribe that shares some type of social contract
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“All aggression, regardless of actor, must be condemned.”
Here's a video of a Ukrainian drone taking out a Russian soldier in Ukraine.
Is that aggression that must be condemned?
https://video.nostr.build/bcc9cd642a2a8ff0060370c33a947c04dc33b75011ae0a5de49958351873e579.mp4
Or how about these videos, of workers running for their lives during Ukraine's attack yesterday on the Shahed drone factory in Alabuga, Russia. One worker was killer and another dozen seriously injured.
Those are the exact same drones that were flying around my Airbnb a week ago in Kyiv. The closest hit that I'm aware of was a church just 800m away. There's a small chance I personally could have died that night; killing and injuring those workers make me a little safer next time I visit.
Is that aggression that must be condemned?
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You could have asked "How about self defense?"
Is Israel attacking Iran right now defense or aggression?
I think it depends on how they follow. I would argue, that Gaza was a defense the first two weeks or so. After this started pure active agression.
A little like when you and me would fight every now and then. And after I hit you with my fist, you would cut off my arms to defend yourself.
I think all kind of violence has to be tracked. But I think defensive violence can be legitimized, where offensive violence can not. Nor can the decision to gain money, by supporting any offensive war, be legitimized. So I would argue, that all supporters of the russian war are criminal. From Putin, vown to the worker in Russian arms company.
And in temporade of information, all countries that are in favor of world peace should defnitly make this clear. In a way, that as many citizen of the world know that they risk to get targeted by law, if a law can proof someone was supporting a war in whatever way.
Aggression is the initiation of violence.
Defense is the secondary application of violence to stop aggression.