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Well now that you've put it that way, I've changed my mind.
I now think that if someone came to my hometown, uninvited, to "improve the lot" of my family, but routinely ransacked my house looking for weapons and occasionally shot my siblings and friends, I'd cut those people into little pieces and toss them in a stew. I'd send some pieces to their families and make it real fucking clear that I don't want that type of help. I didn't ask for it and I'm not liking it. And I wouldn't feel the least bit of guilt about what I did.
The soldiers, mercs, and civs over there aren't mourning the children they've killed, they're just collecting blood money. So now I think you're right. I think that this was deserved on some level. Thanks for convincing me, because before I was just trying to understand how someone could do this. Now I not only understand, I think I'd probably do the same thing.
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