Perhaps my grandparents' family died under this man's eye.
And I forgive him.
That was almost eighty years ago.
I am not a forgiving person. Were this man 40, or 50, or even 70, things would be different.
But he is an old man at the end of his life. Punishing him now is not justice. It is merely vengeance upon his family.
"Following orders" is what people do. Don't, and you are punished. Harshly. Especially in authoritarian states. Just this past month, an Air Force drone pilot was thrown in prison for blowing the whistle about the Biden administration slaughtering a family. Things then were no different than they are now.
And I forgive him.
That was almost eighty years ago.
I am not a forgiving person. Were this man 40, or 50, or even 70, things would be different.
But he is an old man at the end of his life. Punishing him now is not justice. It is merely vengeance upon his family.
"Following orders" is what people do. Don't, and you are punished. Harshly. Especially in authoritarian states. Just this past month, an Air Force drone pilot was thrown in prison for blowing the whistle about the Biden administration slaughtering a family. Things then were no different than they are now.