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I think this touches on something much deeper. Something that, in my view, is quite unique to Western civilization and one of the many reasons why the West has prospered and continues to prosper more than many other parts of the world.
When a country like the United States invests enormous resources to bring its people who went MIA home, or when a country like Israel sacrifices so much in order to rescue its people who were kidnapped by Palestinians, it tells you something important about the values of those societies.
These are often the same countries portrayed as cruel or immoral in global propaganda. Yet their actions show a very different reality: a profound commitment to the value of human life.
Now, let's compare that to regimes that treat their own people as expendable.
Putin has sent wave after wave of his own people to die as cannon fodder.
The Iranian regime recruits children into the Basij for security duties and in the past even sent young boys into minefields during the Iran Iraq war. Hamas and other Palestinian jihadist movements openly glorify martyrdom and encourage children to aspire to die as “martyrs”.
This contrast matters.
Civilizations reveal their true values in how they treat human life, especially the lives of their own people.
The West is far from perfect. No society is. But the fact that millions of people still strive to immigrate to Western countries and NEVER the other way around, and that the most prosperous and free economies are overwhelmingly Western, is not a coincidence.
Do not fall for simplistic propaganda. When you look closely at the values behind the actions, the West remains one of the most humane and advanced civilizations humanity has produced.
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