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[-] oce@jlai.lu 85 points 1 year ago

What do you suggest doing when your home is invaded by people who want to erase your culture?

[-] BloodForTheBloodGod@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 year ago

Lives are not property of the State.

Ukrainian should defend itself by violence. But human beings are not tools or weapons.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

War robots to the rescue!

[-] oce@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago
[-] deadcream@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's also the home of people being drafted (even more so than for political elite of the country). If some of them want to get the fuck out (yes, from their home) then those thay have elected shouldn't have the right to force them to stay and die.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 25 points 1 year ago

I think that when you grow up and live in a society, you owe many parts of your life to it, to the people who educated you, taught you, protected you or served you, but also the people who came before and made it possible for all those previous people to be there for you.
Therefore, you have a moral responsibility to defend that.

[-] zer0@thelemmy.club 39 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we have the moral responsibility to defend our corrupted politicians and billionares who brought humanity to the brink of extinction. This system must be saved at all cost

[-] oce@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you think what Putin wants to bring to Ukrain is any better? It's what you describe multiplied by a thousand. So yes, we have the moral responsability to resist against the worse even if the current is not great.

[-] vidumec@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

^^ found Zelensky's lemmy account

[-] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not from Ukraine.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a little more complicated than that (and the original post is a ridiculous oversimplifications with the intellectual level of a 5-year-old, if that much).

It's down to how much do each of us owe to the Society we grew up in and the Society we live in (if not the same) and thus how much do we have a moral duty to pay it back when called upon it to protect said Society.

Different people will decide differently on those things and thus determine in their own minds what they think their "duty" is.

Then of course, on top of this there's also the whole "protecting my family", "fight alonside my friends", plain old "warrior spirit" and such motivations on one side, as well as "having to stay to work to feed my family" and such on the other, but that's not really to do with "duty" and "moral".

In this specific case there is also the HUGE moral element that they're paying to avoid the draft, and those doing so actually have money, so they're likelly bigger beneficiaries from Society than those who can't afford to make such payments, which brings in a massive element of injustice (one might make the case that the richer the person the more they have a duty towards the Society that made the and kept them thus).

Ultimatelly the draft itself should include some elements to make it fairer (and it does, up to a point, thinks like not drafting poor people with lots of kids - who need to earn a living for their family - or people who don't have the local citizenship - who likely owe much less to local society than the locals) but in this specific case it absolutelly make sense to throw the book at those who are local citizens who have more money than most and yet use it to evade a duty to Society which is likely higher than that of most other people.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So society owes us nothing, but we owe society our lives? Why? I'm not sure I agree with that. I would risk my life protecting myself and my loved ones, but asking me to protect strangers and to die for them is a tall ask IMO.

[-] AAA@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

Society is the return for contributing.

Those people happily enjoyed the benefits of their society, and now try to get around the contribution part - by spending money they got trough their position in this very society.

Everyone is free to dislike this deal, but then you should find yourself a country which doesn't have a draft. It's as simple as that. But they didn't. They lived in their comfort zone and now try to get around the rules.

Last, this discussion should be about the officials who took the bribes.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not at all what I said.

That you can read and write, have Internet and are alive past (I assume) the ripe old age of 20, is because of Society: anything that you cannot do with your own hands only exists because people have organised to achieve more than single individuals can by themselves and to protect what they achieved from other individuals that would take it by force.

Being outside Society would basically mean having the same rights as a wild animal: you can be killed at will by anybody, enslaved, own nothing that you cannot yourself protect, will be left to die if hurt, will likely be run over and/or killed if you enter communal spaces (such as road, parks). Forget about more complex rights than that such as the rights that come from citizenship: wild animals are not citizens.

It would be immenselly educational for people who parrot this kind of libertarian crap if there was indeed a way for them to be free of all duty to Society and Society free of all duty to them.

As there isn't, if you want a (even partially so) place where people have little or no duty to Society, I suggest you move to a place like Somalia, though I expect that if you take such an extreme "I have no duty to the group" take as you wrote here you would be dead pretty quickly (or maybe just enslaved, who knows): even in a place like that which is pretty much an Anarchy when it comes to the power of the State, people still group up in large groups with a mutual duty of protection (a Society of tribes), and funnilly enough that is same kind of mutual duty of protection you want to evade in the "tribe" you are part of currently whilst enjoying all the benefits only made possible by that very thing you do not want to fight to protect.

Even cavemen had Societies, just very small and called tribes, only back then those who didn't want to contribute to the defense of the group were pushed out and generally died.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just contribute your life savings to the war effort in exchange?

[-] 22dobbeltskudhul@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

As corrupt and shitty the Ukrainian state is, very few people owe their life to it. Draftdodging is morally defensible in almost all wars.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Society is not the State.

Only certain political subcultures in the United States and most absolute dictatorships (like China and Russia) think the State is Society.

States are just one form of organisation that naturally emerges in Societies to manage certain aspects of it. They're not Society, just as Legal is not the same as Moral (i.e. sometimes what's lawfull is imoral and what's moral is illegal).

In fact I agree that people have no duty to the State.

And in Russia that does mean that they have no duty to obey the draft, because it was the Russian State that made the war and it's not being done for the good of Society.

However in Ukraine people would be fighting for Society, not the State and in fact they would be fighting against the State: the Russian State, which is trying take over their land, their things and even control their lives and impose their will on them.

On the Ukranian side this is very much a fight for Freedom from a State which does not operate for the good of people and doesn't even want them to be free.

In fact it even makes sense for some Ukranians to be against the Ukranian State as it operates and still join to fight because the Russian State would be even worse - they're fighting for their families, their friends, their neighbours, even themselves, not for the Ukranian State.

I'm surprised so many people read your post without holding the simple truth that Society (all of us) is not the State (just a few people, sometimes not even elected and when elected, often only through lies and rules that mathematically rig the voting systems). I suppose there are a lot of politicans that want people to confuse such things as Nationalism and Patriotism, hence people who are constantly fed that political spin also end up confusing related elements such as the State, the Nation and Society.

(Also most actual Political Thinking has been killed in the last 4 decades and replaced by techniques from Marketing, so it's unsurprising that most people haven't really pondered by themselves on these things which were all the rage for ideologies back in the first half or the XX century, especially in the US where politics has long ceased to be about grand visions for the future of society).

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Draftdoging an economic or offensive war is much different than draftdoging a defensive war.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 27 points 1 year ago

I mean, to be fair, slavery is slavery whether there's a "good reason" or not

[-] oce@jlai.lu 30 points 1 year ago

You generally don't get paid for being a slave, nor recover your freedom after the crisis has passed.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Recover your freedom? So you're not free and are forced to work? Sounds like textbook slavery, to me. Indentured servitude is still slavery

[-] oce@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago

You are forced to go to school, you are forced to work to earn your life. Are those slavery too?

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There a huge difference between parents making a child do something, with basically no legal repercussions if they don't, and the government forcing an adult to do something against their will at the threat of prison.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are all restricting your freedom because there's a consensus that it helps the group in general.

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Forced labour and servitude generally fall under the umbrella of slavery, according to the USIDHR at least

[-] BloodForTheBloodGod@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Nor will you if you're dead.

[-] zer0@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago

The really first thing you want to do is to try to be better than them

[-] oce@jlai.lu 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Better than the invaders? I agree with the general statement, but when you're in the line of sight of an automatic rifle, they're not going to be impressed by your ethics.

It reminds me of Gandhi, who recommended his Jewish friends who were facing Nazism to just peacefully protest and wrote a nice letter to Hitler in 1939 to politely ask him to reconsider going to war. 6 million Jews were assassinated nonetheless.
https://apnews.com/general-news-f40d8c2c7d8d4ffeadd576ded89acc0c
https://time.com/5685122/gandhi-hitler-letter/

I'm all for giving the good example and building peaceful relations, but when you're faced with extremists who immediately endanger your life, you have to defend yourself first. It's like a violent aggression in the street, you have to defend yourself against the immediate aggression first, to protect your body, your life and maybe your relatives', before you can find a more civilized alternative like deescalating or getting help from the police.

[-] zer0@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago

You are mixing up bullshit. In order to defend themself one of the best thing ukrainian people can do is to ditch their own government who is drafting them to a meat slaughter over invisible lines on the map. Does this mean they have to stop fighting another authoritarian government trying to impose their laws and drafting on them? Nope, people exists with or without a flag on top of their head and a bunch of politicians ruling on them.

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, I'm sure the new laissez faire Ukrainian army will be able to stand up to a united Russian military machine!

[-] zer0@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

No military can stand up to angry people

[-] oce@jlai.lu 11 points 1 year ago

There's quite a history of military rolling over angry civilians.

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

There is also the case of Afghanistan, but they are a quasi-organized paramilitary fundamentalist organization of loose warlords that terrorize their citizens when left unabated.

Do we really wanna be like Afghanistan?

[-] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Deconstruction is not an argument.

Lol your house is just a collection of bricks what do you mean I cant live there?

Lmaoo money is literally just numbers why do you give a shit if I take a few numbers from you?

Fighting for your country is always a good thing. Its your country, your land and your people and they deserve to be protected.

[-] zer0@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 year ago

Fighting for your country is always a good thing. Its your country, your land and your people and they deserve to be protected.

Russia propaganda.

Drafting is there to protect the state and its government at the expenses of people.

[-] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Russian propaganda.

Projection + fixed the grammar for you Vlad

Drafting is used in Ukraine to protect the people from invasive forces. The ONLY way to peace in Ukraine is through superior firepower, nothing less.

Please continue dodging the arguments I make though.

[-] zer0@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago

Peace through superior firepower is something illogical that does not make much sense. There will be peace once "fighting for your country is always a good thing" propaganda is no more.

[-] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

There was peace, which was disrupted by a foreign power using firepower against Ukraine. Peace will be achieved once superior firepower is established by either side. It's very logical. Only thing that will happen if the peaceniks get their wish is rus*ia winning, and that simply can't happen.

Keep ignoring my points btw you're doing a great job at it.

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