A real free person wants freedom for everyone. It depends on whether the next war will be

This is a very clear idea: you were slaves and aliens yourself, you are familiar with all that pain and suffering, you missed them through yourself - and it obliges you, remembering this pain, taking care of those who are in the same position now . Do not cause others the pain you experienced yourself. To have this pain with care and compassion. Ukrainians survived unspeakable tragedies in the twentieth century and experienced in the present.

Aggression, the Holodomor, the destruction of culture, the Great War, in which Ukraine was not likely to gain independence, clamped between two bloody empires, mass exile, Russification, a great war again . . . All this should make us sensitive to another's grief. The Almighty could tell us: take care of enslaved and Russified peoples, because you were enslaved and Russified in the Soviet land. And so, we are sensitive and compassionate. But not everyone.

There is a large part of the people who think that suffering is the right to neglect those who are now in a similar state. We were slaves, so we despise those who are slave now. We were Russified, so we despise those who are Russified now. We were destroyed in the imperial wars, so we despise those who are married to such wars today. We were oppressed by the authoritarian regime, so we despise those under the authoritarian regime now.

The former slave says that now I was released, I have chosen my freedom, so I am higher than those who have not yet chosen my freedom. There are two answers: biblical and geopolitical. Who is more liked. The slaves that are free now, the Almighty says, you are well, you boldly left Egypt, but do not forget that I have taken you from there. You would not come out, but completely Russified (crossed out), egyptized, despite the freedom -loving aspirations and efforts of your active minority.

I created the conditions under which your exit was possible. So do not get in and remember: you were in the Egyptian land, so take care of the ones you were then. The geopolitical response returns us in 1918-1920, when all the peoples of Eastern Europe became free because they were supported by other states of the world. Ukrainians have not received such support for a number of reasons that Yaroslav Gritsak is considering in detail in the book "Essay on the History of Ukraine".

If we were supported then, the history of the XX century would be different. And in 1991 we were supported and we became free. So today, the fate of the current enslaved peoples depends on the support of other states. It depends on our position where the story goes, and whether the next war will be.

The position of each person depends not on the level of empathicity (depth of ability to compassion), but on the scale of the circle of our solidarity (more about this concept, first introduced, seems to be Christian Velzel, co -author of the world study of values, can be read in the book "Bil Dung"). Our circle of solidarity can only include our own ego or only our family, or only our community, or all the people, or all the civilization to which we belong, or all humanity.

The expansion of solidarity circles is very familiar with anyone who studied vertical human development models like integrated dynamics. Does it include former oppressed and now free people, their circle of solidarity of those other people who are oppressed now? You can have your own answer, and the Almighty has your own, dozens of times repeating: take care of slaves and aliens, because you have been the servants and aliens recently by historical standards.