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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by ericmay on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:08PM (#30603388)
If you wanted to take this further then you'd have to do a greater comparison of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Russia's invasion of Ukraine... and I think then you'd have a difficult time drawing a good comparison.

If Russia is or is not justified in its invasion of Ukraine, what is it? What word would you use here when someone is attempting to draw a comparison in order to make one thing "ok" because of another thing?

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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by azangru on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:24PM (#30608767)
> If Russia is or is not justified in its invasion of Ukraine, what is it?

I've no idea. I don't know if there is such a thing as a justified invasion; and if there is, then what are its criteria; and whether all countries have agreed to recognize the same set of criteria; and what specific criteria Russia would claim that it met in this case.

I know that there were several ill-defined reasons that the Russian government offered to its citizens. Obviously, after the invasion had already started. Obviously, insisting that they are in the right. I have not heard an in-depth analysis of their reasons against the criteria of a justified invasion. All I heard are fragments.

> What word would you use here when someone is attempting to draw a comparison in order to make one thing "ok" because of another thing?

"similar"? "dissimilar"? "understandable"? "incomprehensible"?

"ok" is a moral judgement; and applying a moral yardstick to instigators of a war is ... hard.

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