I made myself read the AP report. I'm not saying I wish I hadn't, but I feel like I'm going to have to take the rest of the day off. I hate to be one of those people who says "I didn't really understand until I had kids," but the children in those pictures look like my children. They just as easily could be. It makes me feel a visceral, …
I made myself read the AP report. I'm not saying I wish I hadn't, but I feel like I'm going to have to take the rest of the day off. I hate to be one of those people who says "I didn't really understand until I had kids," but the children in those pictures look like my children. They just as easily could be. It makes me feel a visceral, primal anger I haven't felt since maybe 9/11 -- and this might even be worse because on 9/11 I was just some college kid with no real responsibilities.
And while I understand and accept the intellectual case for non-intervention up to this point, my more emotional side wouldn't shed a single tear if Moscow were to become a glass parking lot. But that's why people with [hopefully] cooler heads than mine are in charge, I suppose.
"my more emotional side wouldn't shed a single tear if Moscow were to become a glass parking lot"
NO! For crying out loud, no! I mean, I get why you're saying this. I read the AP report too, and it is absolutely heartbreaking and horrifying. But Moscow is full of innocent children too. Wish death on Putin, not on ordinary people who happen to live in Moscow rather than Mariupol.
Obligatory Nietzsche quote: "Every man who fights monsters must take care not to become a monster himself. When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
I made myself read the AP report. I'm not saying I wish I hadn't, but I feel like I'm going to have to take the rest of the day off. I hate to be one of those people who says "I didn't really understand until I had kids," but the children in those pictures look like my children. They just as easily could be. It makes me feel a visceral, primal anger I haven't felt since maybe 9/11 -- and this might even be worse because on 9/11 I was just some college kid with no real responsibilities.
And while I understand and accept the intellectual case for non-intervention up to this point, my more emotional side wouldn't shed a single tear if Moscow were to become a glass parking lot. But that's why people with [hopefully] cooler heads than mine are in charge, I suppose.
"my more emotional side wouldn't shed a single tear if Moscow were to become a glass parking lot"
NO! For crying out loud, no! I mean, I get why you're saying this. I read the AP report too, and it is absolutely heartbreaking and horrifying. But Moscow is full of innocent children too. Wish death on Putin, not on ordinary people who happen to live in Moscow rather than Mariupol.
Obligatory Nietzsche quote: "Every man who fights monsters must take care not to become a monster himself. When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
While I do not have children of my own, your words echo the thoughts in my head.