RE: Human Nature
May 2, 2025 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2025 at 5:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 2, 2025 at 3:21 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: Naive might have been too soft a word. Expecting Russian to lay their lives for incompetent gov which insisted on wasting their lives in idiotic offensive would be stupid or insane.But why? Why would that be insane or stupid to expect? Whatever it is you're thinking of there, that makes it seem obvious to you that this is a batshit expectation...is the kind of thing I'm talking about when I use the term "human nature". You indicate just in this sentence that you think it's predictive enough to consider a third party stupid or insane just for having expectations contrary to whatever that is.
At any rate, I agree. That's nuts - unless you're dealing with heavily indoctrinated people, that's not something I would expect from them. The heavily indoctrinated and heavily leveraged, otoh, yes, absolutely, I would expect nothing less. Look at the meat in ukraine. The russian government is incompetent, it's been wasting 1k lives a day on idiotic offensives for some time now, and it lost territory for it's trouble in doing so.
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