Re:Appeal to Ruby Community from Kharkiv Rubyist
by romwell on Thursday March 10, 2022 @04:57AM
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Yeah, but as bad as "precision strikes" are, there's a difference between at least having a target, and indiscriminate shelling.
Russians are doing the latter.
In your thought experiment, imagine there's a baddie at the bus stop.
The shells hit your office, the hospital, the library, two apartment buildings, five buses, eleven cars - all miles away from the station.
The station is intact though.
That's what Russia is doing now.
Thank you for saying it out loud.
To be fair, I think you can safely replace "Russians" with many other people. Certainly, US media loves the term "precision strikes". They are nonsense. I also once believed in them.
As a thought experiment, imagine a bus stop is bombed with precision guided bombs (or a missile if you like). Imagine that bus stop is in the same neighborhood as your office or home. Imagine that you walk or drive past it daily. Imagine that a "precision strike" took out someone very bad. How would you feel, walking past a huge hole in the ground where the bus stop once stood? You would never again feel safe in that place. Everyday that you pass the hole in the ground, you would think to yourself: "What if I was standing at the same bus stop on that day?" This is my point about "precision strikes". The term ignores the impact on real humans who live near those places.