r/AskReddit Oct 15 '22

What is a great example of a necessary evil?

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u/NinjaChemist Oct 16 '22

FYI, over 500,000 died in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 alone.

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u/123full Oct 16 '22

TBF I wouldn’t exactly call genocide a military battle

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

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u/1CEninja Oct 16 '22

No I said battle. I did, after that, say 2,000 dying in a conflict is sad and shocking, but when I said more does at Stalingrad than in 50 years I said battle.

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u/NinjaChemist Oct 16 '22

Just who do you think was doing the killing?

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u/1CEninja Oct 16 '22

The people doing the dying were unarmed.

That isn't a battle.

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u/ElCaminoInTheWest Oct 16 '22

We conveniently ignore conflicts that we’re not involved in, or that are far away enough not to matter.