I don't really have a stake in the situation in Ukraine, and have mostly avoided conversations about it, because I'm pretty clueless about the region. But the conversations about Ukraine - and the divisions in opinions about it - are sometimes frustrating for me. I wasn't sure why, but I think it might be because of the tendency to conflate moral responsibility with causal responsibility. It's not a problem that's limited to Ukraine, but it's certainly become inflamed by it.

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