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What a fantastic level of humanity you have. “Orcs in the meat grinder” are (sometimes) sons and husbands and fathers etc first and foremost. It’s good to not necessarily conflate every single soldier with the regime.
We're all just caught in the gears of history. People who seek redemption and choose peace are profoundly heroic.
quite frankly disgusted with how uncommon this stance is in this sub
Let's see you get your home broken into by an armed gang and see how magnanimous you are to the burglars beating your family do death.
Reconciliation first, then sympathy.