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Re:Sanctions and Strategic Bombing by rhn_mk1 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @05:46AM (#31618592)
Can we always blame people for their opinions?

Can we blame the mentally underdeveloped, like children?

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Re:Sanctions and Strategic Bombing by rhn_mk1 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @06:45AM (#31618885)
Are you advocating punishing children for the rapes committed by adults?
Re:Sanctions and Strategic Bombing by eastbound on Saturday June 04, 2022 @07:37AM (#31619178)
Germany paid the war damages of WWI (1914-1918!) until the 1990ies. War damages hugely aggravated the economic crisis of 1932, leading to you-know-what; I’ve always been surprised that we didn’t take this as a lesson that punishing children for the faults of their parents was a double-edged idea. Imagine being 17 in 1934, having to pay and apologize for a war you never did, let alone a war that you could never have influenced or lobbied against.

I’m still torn about this approach. But OTOH, peace must be enforced and warmonging nations must be weakened until the lesson is learnt. And we equate citizen with their nation’s decisions.