I feel you are talking from a place of honesty. Probably the closest someone like me will be able to hear from the source. I feel that it is important. Especially when we consider how mass media has turned human suffering in something that resembles another spectacle.
As you said, it is important to make an effort so the grey zone doesn’t advance. And speaking up from a place of honesty. Saying, this is like a carrousel in which we are all spiraling into hell just because we have not been able to dare to speak up against our bullies, and then we get off on someone else (as I fear is the case of the Russians, who live subjugated by their oligarchs but instead of rebelling against them, they go an invade another country).
But it is true that the weak want to feel some power, and they borrow from others as to empower themselves. Hence I imagine the lower class Russian soldier feels empowered with his gun and his tank. Like everyone else in his position. Like soldiers through endless times felt before.
They borrow the identity of the uniform when they don’t know who they are.
But how to recognize ourselves under all this noise. How do we tell them, the Russian soldiers, they may not be able to look at their children in their eyes and tell their children what they did? That at the end they will feel used and they will escape inside a bottle?
Maybe it is as you say, and we avoid the gray zone by looking at it, recognizing it. Admitting we are there.
Sorry, Giedre. I wish I’d know what it is with our hearts. But the more I look into this the more it looks like complacency to me. A blind hope that we (us and only us) will not be affected by the splash when the poop hits the fan.
Pablo