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I was trying to make it offensive. Shocking, visceral, real. Trying to appeal to someone's emotions they have for their own family. Because that's what's actually happening. Real people's families are being blow apart by massive bombs falling in their living rooms.

Not some abstract idea. Not some line you read on an online article. Not some video on the news shot from a mile away showing a big explosion. No, an actual real, devastating, earth shattering bomb going off on your head, in your own living room. Where your niece gets blown to pieces in front of you. Where your family is torn apart literally and metaphorically. That's a fucking real, harrowing and horrifying experience that many are facing right now. It's not some stupid game of my side Vs your side, it's not about left or rightwing politics. It's about real people getting killed. And that brutal truth and reality of what that's like needs to be exposed and pushed on people. This is a crime against humanity and it needs to be stopped urgently.

So sorry if I lost the moral high ground. I honestly could not care less. My moral high or low ground has no bearing on the reality and facts of the situation. It doesn't negate what I said in any way. I'll gladly say other horrible, moral-high-ground-losing things if it gets someone to just think for a second, to consider a different view, to be shocked in to considering how they would feel if it happened to them.

Then again maybe I'm on to a losing battle trying to force people to develop a modicum of empathy.