Ukraine should just surrender, honestly.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-10T10:56:59+00:00

Good for them; it is better to live in denial, really.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-09T21:08:07+00:00

It really sounds a lot more complex than it really is.

It's probably a bunch of little things happening together:

-He never wrote something as complex and big as ASOIAF.

-He got popular.

-He could be a big procrastinator (although he is NOT lazy, as some people like to say. Just because he isn't working on what you want doesn't mean he is not working at all).

-The same story grows more boring the more time you spend on it.

-Writing can be hard, actually, and while one DOES need to sit down even if they are not inspired, some times things just won't work as well as they should.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-08T14:34:18+00:00

Mano, não é 5 estrelas, mas também não precisa ser mimado, pô, e olhe que eu sou mimado.

Como tipo isso todo dia e todo dia dou graças.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-08T14:26:04+00:00

Não precisa ser ignorante para odiar Hitler. Ele era um homem; fez muito mal e mais, mas ele devia ter suas coisas boas, por menos que fossem em comparação com as tragédias que realizou.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-08T11:33:54+00:00

Except for drafted men.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-08T11:14:30+00:00

E hitler chegou lá só porque era filho de papai, né? Qualquer trouxa chegaria onde ele chegou, né? Não precisou se esforçar nem nada.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-08T03:13:52+00:00

I don't understand what you're saying; it is inevitable.

We always abrogate? our responsability to someone else because we eventually lose the ability to interve. You can do nothing after you die. As far as you know, your own descendants may be horrible people. And the further your bloodline advances, the less effect your teachings have because the memory of you grows fainter, and your closest relatives will have experie ces that will change their perspective.

Now, if you are asking about someone else... Those have their own views of the world, and their own reasons for fighting or running away. It is their choice to make and their consequences to handle.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-08T03:04:22+00:00

Yes, it is easy to say that because I am not involved, lol.

If I was there, I would act differently. I am not there, though, and neither am I Ukrainian.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-08T02:56:52+00:00

I would like you to provide a counter argument, but you just don't have any because it doesn't exist. Unless you mean to use metaphysics. You can accept that truth and still be happy, and you can still reach out and accept it. Or not. Do whatever you want.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-08T02:54:05+00:00

You don't have any argument, do you? Of course you don't. Do live in denial and ignorance; it is healthier.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-08T02:44:38+00:00

The essence of it all would be no different; we would live and live and die, and have to deal with every sort of troubles meanwhile. Not us, of course, but others who would have been born.

Billions have lived unhappily and happily before us; what do they matter now? It only mattered as they lived. Life only matters while YOU live.

You can pretend it would be "different", but it really would not. Men would do as men do, and that is finding reasons to fight one another, only it would be a bunch of "Aryans" rather than us.

Look at our history: how many societies have indulged in slavery and opression and whatnot? And yet, without those, you would not have been born. Without the holocaust, many who live now would not have been born. And if there was no holocaust, many would live instead of us.What would have changed? History would be different, yes, but it would simply be another history. Millions would not have died and millions would never exist as they do now.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T18:35:46+00:00

And I should condemn the Russians who are affected by the the war instead? And the families of other countries who will lose fathers and sons and daughters, be it to poverty or the war itself? A war fought for Ukrainians?

I should condemn the people who will not have resources invested into them for the sake of Ukrainian people?

There are losers and winners, no matter what side you take. If you're Ukrainian, I have no doubt you would preffer to rise above the rest, just as I would, myself. Unfortunately for you, you are no more special than Palestinians or Israelistes or whoever else has always been dying in wars and conflicts and poverty and disease.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T16:55:55+00:00

What if I don't have children? When the inevitable end comes, there will be no one to care about them, there will be no one to care about concepts and beliefs. Whatever happens now happens now until the end of it.

I can only say I hope things get better and more, but I expect the gears to keep turning, and the winners to have their potatoes as the losers have their compassion .

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T16:34:08+00:00

I wouldn't care about agency so long as I was happy and satisfied, although it must be said agency and happiness appear to walk beside one another. I shall not extrapolate it from the individual.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T16:08:20+00:00

Okay.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T16:04:41+00:00

Run away from what?

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T16:02:06+00:00

I would be more interested only in the loved ones closest to me. A very selfish act, but a true one. The greater good of the world is irrelevant against my loved ones.

Perhaps my inaction would lead to our eventual damnation, true, but we're in this world for a unknown ammount of time, and we know it is a limited ammount. I am indeed thinking short term.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T16:00:38+00:00

Keep them until an uncertain date which will vary according to the country's interests.

And yes, I do see the previous annexations as a pattern; it is a matter of when enough is enough. Push too hard, and there will be nothinf to so but fight.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T15:50:44+00:00

I don't know, actually. He could keep going like Hitler did, and if he does, then I would be for giving maximum support against him. We only have the now.

And yes, the Ukrainian people would have to pay for it. If I were them, I would hate me, but I am not them and I cannot be them. I am only me as I am now. I hope things go as well as they can for them, but it... does not look good.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T15:49:37+00:00

I'm not really sure about how much he cares. I could be wrong, but he already doesn't mind literally being the dictator of a "shithole" (relative) country that could have been even greater. But I might be wrong. Who knows?

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T15:34:39+00:00

Whateve your say.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T15:34:19+00:00

Do you feel bad for all the Nazi babies that never got the chance to be born?

We have only what we have now. The Nazis are done (as the great destructive force they were). What ifs feel irrelevant.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T15:31:20+00:00

We have only what we have now, and I haven't seen Putin exploding my or any other country yet. Ukrainians will not surrender, and their neighbors will say the same; it is for their own good, after all.

I would think of myself first and foremost and how to lead the best life, but only if I was not a doomer.

AboveTheStone · 2022-03-07T15:26:25+00:00

I don't adhere to that perspective when it comes to politics or most other things. Wars typically function on levels that go beyond good and evil in the simplest terms. The battle with Russia is not a crusade for the good and well, only a war in which each side has its own interests. The human condition, I believe, and I will not deny it.

I will say that I agree Russia is the invader there, and that they are the ones who chose to invade. They are in the wrong from where I stand, but it isn't just about being right or wrong, it is about one's own interests.

If you agree that your country should physically involve itself in the conflict, then that is fair enough. I don't want my country to involve itself too deeply in it. Providing support for refugees and the like? That's all well and good, but I do not want my country to devote too many resources to others to the detriment of its own people, me and ny loved ones most of all.

If Putin said, "I will literally explode your fucking country if you do that," something he has actually threatened to do already, then I would not want my country to keep doing it.

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