They are risking their lives fighting a genocide that puts them straight at the top of human rights with nothing to gain from it while everyone else is complicit and nodding along.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So your position is that the good someone does excuses the evil they also do. An interesting position.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which is what you did regarding the USA

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Where have I done that?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You said that yes the USA did bad stuffs but they still give the most aid to other countries which many of them was destoyed by the US imperial policies as if the aid wipe up all the terrible think the empire did

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I think you've misunderstood - what I said was that the US being the "paragon" of humanitarian aid doesn't excuse the crimes they have committed, much as Yemen's agreement to aid colombia in this should not mean we overlook their history of human rights abuses.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No that seems to be your position based on our conversation. But you refuse to acknowledge the evils done by the West because they are Ubermenschen.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Take the US: it’s done undeniably evil things

I'm not sure how I could be more explicit about acknowledging the evil things done by the US than to say "They have done undeniably evil things". But while I've repeatedly done that, and lauded how Yemen's involvement in this coalition is a morally correct choice, you have repeatedly avoided addressing that Yemen's persecution of queer people is wrong, while falsely claiming that I'm somehow denying the west's evils.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yemen comes out on top by simply committing far less evil than the rest.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

by simply committing far less evil than the rest

So you do agree that they're doing evil things. But you're willing to overlook them, because in your eyes they are doing less of it than other people. While I doubt the strict accuracy of that claim (yemen does a lot of human rights violations and there are many other countries that simply do not have the population to compete with them in volume), I am glad we can agree that their doing good things does not negate the evils they also commit.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes it turns out that the poorest and most oppressed people are not perfect victims. But they are much better than their perfect oppressors.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Okay, I'm glad we have that sorted out!