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Killing them is required for self-defense. What's the point of dehumanizing them? Boosting soldier morale? Would it be okay to call Japanese and Germans slurs in WW2 for the same reason? Do the ends justify the means?


The racial slurs are a slightly different kettle of fish. But I’ll shed no tears for the Nazis who were called mean names.


>The racial slurs are a slightly different kettle of fish.

So "racial slurs" are fine but country slurs are fine? What's the basis of that?

>But I’ll shed no tears for the Nazis who were called mean names.

Not every Russian is a "Nazi", especially when there's mandatory conscription there and there's little room for political dissent.


“I was just following orders” didn’t cut it then, and it doesn’t cut it now.


>“I was just following orders” didn’t cut it then

How many German conscripts were prosecuted in the Nuremberg trials?


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You've unfortunately been posting way too many unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. We need you to stop this—it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We've already had to ask you about this multiple times, and if you keep it up we won't have much choice but to ban your account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225621 (Nov 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37358816 (Sept 2023)

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1. You didn't answer my previous question

2. Getting away with murder when you're surrounded by men with guns is... non-trivial to say the least. Defecting to another country and leaving your family and friends behind can't be easy either.


Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. We've unfortunately had to ask you this multiple times as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852496 (July 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30643505 (March 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29214097 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27757258 (July 2021)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.




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