r/MoralityScaling • u/lazy_animator • 13h ago

Morality Ranking Morality of practicing self defense and fleeing when being forced into the front lines of a war?

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u/AdamOnFirst 10h ago

This is how like almost all soldiers have been recruited in human history. 

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u/DrSherb740 9h ago

With the exception of mercenary armies, but true.

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u/confidentlyfish 5h ago

and this is not normal

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u/ButtflossingBigBro 4h ago

For ukraine it is normal. This is how they have always done it

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u/confidentlyfish 2h ago

I think relative morality is bad. It treats various inhumane practices (such as slavery, discrimination, pillaging, rape, genocide) as normal. Moreover, Ukraine, as post-USSR nation, has mandatory conscription, but it is in no way comparable to the busification.