Maybe, but I think a lot of humans have a bloodthirsty taste for vengeance when they hear about someone committing an atrocity. In fact, I think the more difficult position is to be able to put that very common need for vengeance that so many people have aside because it isn’t ethical.
I personally have not had an issue with this, but I have said to more than one person that (for example) hoping a rapist will get raped in prison doesn’t make any sense from an ethical standpoint and getting them to understand that.
Ergo, the average American is not better than the average Russian.
It’s almost as if they’re the same species or something
Unlike Norwegians that still apply the rule of law for terrorists.
I propose classifying Russians and Americans as Homo Sapiens Venator Scholae by referencing one of their distinguishing behaviours.
Maybe, but I think a lot of humans have a bloodthirsty taste for vengeance when they hear about someone committing an atrocity. In fact, I think the more difficult position is to be able to put that very common need for vengeance that so many people have aside because it isn’t ethical.
I personally have not had an issue with this, but I have said to more than one person that (for example) hoping a rapist will get raped in prison doesn’t make any sense from an ethical standpoint and getting them to understand that.