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[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Too many people often just handwave that civilians should die rebelling against their government if it is bad. It is never that simple, it is not as simple as they voted bad and didn't rebel, so we have an excuse to exterminate them all.

We should do the same as was done with Germany: trial those most responsible in Nuremberg, rehabilitate the rest. Germany turned out to be a wonderful, anti-nazi country, with hard workers that produced high-quality products. Imagine if they where just nuked instead?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Germany is a really interesting example. When I'm trying to decide if I'm overreacting about what's happening now, I often tell myself a lot of Germans probably said the same thing in the 1930s. I've never assumed all Germans were Nazis, and always knew there was a large number, if not majority, who were victims of their own government. However, I remember my mother (born just after WWII and my grandpa fought in the Pacific) saying she grew up with a negative opinion of Germany.