<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@aleksorsist" class="u-url mention">@<span>aleksorsist</span></a></span> I used to think along similar lines. And then Russian bombs started falling on my friends' heads in Ukraine. Their families were raped and murdered by Russian soldiers on the outskirts of Kyiv. I saw the dead bodies and rethought my approach.</p><p>It's easy to be a pacifist when no one is shooting at you. But humanity apparently isn't civilized enough for pacifism yet.</p>