I dont believe in determinism. This guy was dealt a bad hand his whole life, no doubt - that can provide context for his choices but it doesn’t excuse them. He was in a squad with three other Russians that were all ex-inmates also, they were surprised when he executed this Ukrainian that surrendered. There are hundreds of thousands of ex-inmates fighting for Russia, not all of them are committing warcrimes.
I’m glad the journalist included his backstory. But there are absolutely people who lack empathy and could care less who they kill, regardless of background and upbringing.
This guy will face life in prison in Ukraine if found guilty, and will very likely be traded to Russia in a POW swap in future. His victim and their family gets no chance at a happy ending.
Going through brutal things will destroy your empathy. I am fine with this guy standing trial for his crime but I don’t think it was really “his fault” at the end of the day after how he grew up.
Some people have strong character and they can turn out fine no matter how you treat them. Some people, you can give every opportunity in the world to, and they’re still going to turn towards the dark. For most people, it’s down to circumstances.
That’s why it is important to create good circumstances. The schools, the police, the meeting places where people hang out, the shops and the structure of the economy. It all has to serve the good, it has to be alive with life. Because the people who are in it will be molded.
He made a terrible crime and he is guilty, no doubts. I’m not trying to exceuse him! My point was that the problem is not in “bad nations”, cause I’m very often see arguments like “all russians are war criminals”, “all muslim are terrorists”, “all Israelis are doing genocide”, etc. For me the problem is not even in propaganda, because it looks like this russian did not know about the conflict at all three months before the event. The problem for me is there are too musch people on the planet, that are living on the edge and that are rejected by society. And to reduce an amount of people that are having lack of empathy we as a spice should work on inequality instead of again and again jumping into discussion what nation is bad and what nation is good.
Fair point to make, and look when I see most people on Lemmy talk about war they generally have the maturity to say they are against the leaders or government rather than every inhabitant of the country themselves. There are of course outliers on any large community, but generally I see people say “Putin is bad” and share desire for him and his government to answer to their crimes, rather than dismiss all Russians as evil/bad/etc.
I dont believe in determinism. This guy was dealt a bad hand his whole life, no doubt - that can provide context for his choices but it doesn’t excuse them. He was in a squad with three other Russians that were all ex-inmates also, they were surprised when he executed this Ukrainian that surrendered. There are hundreds of thousands of ex-inmates fighting for Russia, not all of them are committing warcrimes.
I’m glad the journalist included his backstory. But there are absolutely people who lack empathy and could care less who they kill, regardless of background and upbringing.
This guy will face life in prison in Ukraine if found guilty, and will very likely be traded to Russia in a POW swap in future. His victim and their family gets no chance at a happy ending.
Going through brutal things will destroy your empathy. I am fine with this guy standing trial for his crime but I don’t think it was really “his fault” at the end of the day after how he grew up.
Some people have strong character and they can turn out fine no matter how you treat them. Some people, you can give every opportunity in the world to, and they’re still going to turn towards the dark. For most people, it’s down to circumstances.
That’s why it is important to create good circumstances. The schools, the police, the meeting places where people hang out, the shops and the structure of the economy. It all has to serve the good, it has to be alive with life. Because the people who are in it will be molded.
He made a terrible crime and he is guilty, no doubts. I’m not trying to exceuse him! My point was that the problem is not in “bad nations”, cause I’m very often see arguments like “all russians are war criminals”, “all muslim are terrorists”, “all Israelis are doing genocide”, etc. For me the problem is not even in propaganda, because it looks like this russian did not know about the conflict at all three months before the event. The problem for me is there are too musch people on the planet, that are living on the edge and that are rejected by society. And to reduce an amount of people that are having lack of empathy we as a spice should work on inequality instead of again and again jumping into discussion what nation is bad and what nation is good.
Fair point to make, and look when I see most people on Lemmy talk about war they generally have the maturity to say they are against the leaders or government rather than every inhabitant of the country themselves. There are of course outliers on any large community, but generally I see people say “Putin is bad” and share desire for him and his government to answer to their crimes, rather than dismiss all Russians as evil/bad/etc.