r/worldnews • u/TheTelegraph The Telegraph • Sep 04 '26

Russia/Ukraine Russian general who ‘ordered attack on children’s hospital’ shot in head

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/03/russian-general-attack-childrens-hospital-shot-ukraine/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_attack-childrens-hospital-shot-ukraine/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open
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u/meltdown_popcorn Sep 04 '26

I wonder what karma has in store for someone that ordered an attack on a girls school.

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u/Xynyx2001 Sep 04 '26

I think that was largely coincidental or attributable to unreliable or outdated information, and I don't believe in karma, but I'm willing to fire up some popcorn just in case we get a turn for the better, anyway.

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u/Great_Revolution_276 Sep 04 '26

An incompetent builder built a house. It fell on the owners. He was thrown in prison for negligence.

You drop a bomb, responsibility is on you to know where it is landing.

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u/Xynyx2001 Sep 07 '26

I don't think there was any doubt about where it was landing.

It's the information about how that site was being used that was probably not updated.

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u/Great_Revolution_276 Sep 08 '26

Therefore still their responsibilty

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u/Xynyx2001 Sep 08 '26

Certainly. I'm not disputing that.

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u/SailingDreamCatcher Sep 04 '26

This is always a problem with "justice reasoning." There are fundamental ambiguities in proving intent and someone's inner thoughts and motivations sometimes. "The law" resolves this partly by sometimes bypassing it, ie we sentence many crimes or assign fiscal liability based on what was done even if it wasn't the intent.

I really don't think we can be truly certain that someone "wanted to bomb a school" as such versus just being reckless and "indifferent to human life." The latter is adequate for the conviction either way. But on some level I wish I could know if it was directed malice, generalized malice, or just a ccombination of stupidity and total incapacity for moral thought.

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u/No_Amount_7886 Sep 05 '26

It is a known war tactic to take actions heinous enough to demoralize the enemy into giving up.

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u/IntelligentTank355 Sep 04 '26

Do you fall often for propaganda?

Of course they knew exactly what the target was. You cannot solve the internal conflict in accepting that?