Comment by lawn
4 months ago
There are other ways for regular people to support, without jumping into an actual war zone without any training (that would harm more than it helps).
For example to donate to organizations that actively support the war effort or to put pressure on the politicians to do more.
You are right that there are more ways to support. But demanding or asking that somebody else does something is not doing something. A majority of the population consider themselves to be great heroes for making symbolic gestures or for telling their friends over coffee or drinks that "somebody really should do something".
But reality is reality and they have done nothing. They will never do anything voluntarily either – for any cause.
Demanding that politicians act more forcefully, and in fact do their job, isn't "doing nothing" I'd say.
They have much, much more power than regular people, so sometimes the best thing one can do is force more reaction from our politicians.
And it's also working; without the amount of outcry we've had I'm sure the politicians would've done even less.