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My point is, lieing is like eating, we need both for survival and both exist on a spectrum of health ie. addicted to eating, all the way to addicted to dieting; the majority of us tread water somewhere near the middle, but none of us are immune to the edge's.

I'm already trying to bike more to stores, at least on the weekend for small items (and planning vehicle routes more carefully otherwise. I now see myself dieting with added incentive. All, in part at least, feeling guilty having Ukrainians fighting my/our war for me, considering how they fight alone. I know Canada doesn't import Russian oil or gas, but it's a global market. Also a good time to implement much needed carbon taxes...(which proves why I'm not a politician and would never get any votes) But as I said earlier (before Elon Musk tweeted it) I'm also for temporary increases in fossil fuel production. Agree with that, as much as it might be deserved in some respects. Zelensky has done an absolutely incredible job of taking the highest road possible. He's relentlessly challenged everyone he thinks can possibly make a difference while defiantly appealing for peace...including the citizens of Russia. One of his key points has been that Ukraine has never been a threat to Russia and that the invasion is totally unwarranted. Of course that's in currency value and not mass or food calories. But it emphasizes what the self serving and corrupt Putin et gang has done for their economy, which despite being by over double the largest country in the World, and almost 4 times Canada's population, it has a lwer GDP (and dropping faster than ever) Some of the last public thoughts (just last month) of Madeleine Albright on Putin, first US female Secretary of State and refugee from Soviet controlled Czechoslovakia: “Instead of paving Russia’s path to greatness, invading Ukraine would ensure Mr. Putin’s infamy by leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically crippled and strategically vulnerable in the face of a stronger, more united Western alliance,” Albright wrote in an essay in The New York Times on the eve of the war last month. “Ukraine is entitled to its sovereignty, no matter who its neighbors happen to be. In the modern era, great countries accept that, and so must Mr. Putin,” Albright wrote. “That is the message undergirding recent Western diplomacy. It defines the difference between a world governed by the rule of law and one answerable to no rules at all.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/albright-putin-russia-ukraine-analysis/index.html

Violating someone's trust is wrong; deceit for the purpose of harming another who poses no threat to yourself, or depriving them of something to which they are entitled is wrong; deception to gain unearned benefit or advantage is wrong. Story-telling is not wrong. Kindness is not wrong. Protecting someone's privacy is not wrong. Helping an ally is not wrong. Telling untruths or withholding true information doesn't all belong in one big bag labelled LIES. It can't be judged with one big moral gavel. Human communication is entirely context-determined.

So, this question is not about their emotions. It is about our emotions.

It would do, for a start...

I think perhaps that a RTS game won't incorporate the phenomenon of "poorly-maintained equipment because the system has been looted by corrupt higher-ups and widespread incompetence/apathy" along with scores of other impacts that can't be programmed in to a simulation. So even if logistics matters it's unlikely that it goes into the level of detail that real people encounter in real situations There are computer games where you just happen to find ammo and 'health' hidden behind odd-looking bricks in a wall, which is great for game play but not realistic at all, though the phenomenon of finding enemy equipment abandoned might be under-represented. Douglas Bader, WWII RAF pilot, gave a talk to a prestigious girls’ school, and was describing the German planes attacking him: "I had two f*ckers to the left of me, two f*ckers to the right" The horrified schoolmistress interrupted with, “Ladies, the Fokker was a type of German aircraft,” to which Bader replied: “That’s as may be, Madam, but these f*ckers were in Messerschmitts.” (Paraphrased. there are various versions of this all over the internet)

... and sometimes, people can't live with themselves, or look in the mirror, when they do nothing to retaliate against the person who did harm to their loved ones. Both can leave emotional scars. Some deny this, and claim to be virtuous, while others know themselves, and that we are all animals. ( thought I'd contribute my 'two cents' after 26 pages )

I don't think the word "monopoly" means what you think it means. Russia consumes more than it produces. That is why they are a net importer of food.

Any thoughts on why we are not seeing Ukrainian special operations taking place in Crimea or over the Russian border? I would imagine they would have an outsized impact as Russian forces would be tied up addressing these sort of 'behind the lines' operations. I understand that small attacks in, say, Moscow might provoke the Russians beyond what benefit to the Ukrainians might be gained, but in areas that are part of Russia's military staging these attacks might be expected.

How can you tell, which is the greater good? Everyone lies for their own good first, and if that conflicted with the greater good; some people will try to twist a lie into a truth...

I'm quite comfortable is admitting that I sometimes lie, and often am not totally forthcoming with the whole truth, for what I see as the greater good. And sometimes for my own benefit, but at the same time, not detracting from anyone else..