• mea_rah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Calling it a crime is fucked up. Especially in a thread where actual crime (taking bribes) is discussed.

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      1 year ago

      You can’t seriously be equating the moral shortcomings of taking a bribe to the complete immorality of imposing a draft on others and forcing them to march towards near certain death

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        1 year ago

        I definitely can. It would be a completely different topic in russia where they draft people to sustain occupation. If Ukraine stopped defending now, you’d have Buchas and Mariupols all over Ukraine with many dead. So I don’t really see it as immoral as much as it sucks for everyone involved.

        Compared to that, taking bribes from desperate people is next level fucked up and it’s effectively profiteering on genocide.