Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
Invalid comparison with too many focuses involved.
1. Putin's family has nothing to do with what is going on inside his cranium, so it is neither happier nor sadder because of what he does.
2. Pitin doesn't need Eastern Ukraine (otherwise he would have acknowledged the May referendums results and announced the annexation, or reunification, as he terms such things). He needs a controllable Ukraine, preferably inside his empire, but outside it will also do at the moment.
3. People of Eastern Ukraine are in no control of their sufferings, they can do nothing about it any more - just die or flee. Vaccination is the process which can still be refused or accepted thus claiming personal responsibility for whatever consequences.
4. It is a wrong thread to discuss Ukraine.
5. Each family's suffering is important (to this very family), so the existence of other familes suffering near at hand doesn't make the said suffering greater or less.
Your reduction is just as invalid.

1. Maybe, but they probably appreciate the swimming pool he bought with the money from stuff he stole from Ukraine.
2. Irrelevant.
3. Once the disease breaks out, the other victims of the disease are not in control anymore either and that it hits vaccinated people becomes more likely the more unvaccinated people are around them. There were several vaccinated people who got the measles at disneyland. How is that their own choice?
4. You're the one who brings up these parallels in so many other threads, I thought you might like it.
5. How is that relevant to a (potential) national catastrophe? Or do you think the tsunami in asia that killed 200k people was just an accumulation of unfortunate personal tragedies that were no worse due to the scale? Because then I guess we can raze all the memorials given that we don't set up memorials for families that drive their car into a tree either. And the tsunami warning system must have been a waste of money for everybody whose family wasn't directly affected.