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Comment by guelo

6 months ago

10 year olds can figure out that killing children for 14 months is evil . That everyone can't see that is the power of propaganda.

People know it’s evil, they are just unwilling to point it out because driving the conflict into some resolution is already hard without these simplistic views which helped no one before and continue to do so. Kid’s naivety is just that, naivety. Put him into a rulers chair (either side), provide all the factual info with zero propaganda and see him trying to escape at all costs, because all decisions including doing nothing make people die or worse. At some point you just have to choose sides without much meaning attached to it.

I suspect most parents would be prepared to risk the lives of strangers' children if it stopped their own from being killed.