I'm not sure there's any justification for the 'acceptable sacrifice' of people
300 Spartans?
I'm pretty sure he was speaking in the definition used earlier, the one we were debating when it was said that the West understands sacrifice, but seems to disagree on what that entails.
In Western terms we would say: They made a necessary sacrifice to insure Greek liberty. They are heroes! (Or something, I mean it was mostly Athenian's who made the sacrifice not Spartans but whatever)
But in terms of the Russian definition brought up earlier, where it a "sacrifice" is made of unwilling third parties, we would ask: Who did the Spartan's sacrifice? And/or who made an acceptable sacrifice of the Spartan's?
This appears to be where the definition of an "acceptable sacrifice" comes from. The West sees sacrifices as acceptable and even heroic when they are made willingly, it sees the murder of third parties to achieve its goal as,
at best, a necessary evil.
I guess it depends on whether you are using the Western definition of the "heroic sacrifice" a la the Spartans and firefighters and stuff, or the pro-Russian-proposed-definition which seems to be "it's worth killing this dude to get what we want" a la the human sacrifice of the Aztecs.
The US wouldn't really consider the people we shoot to be "sacrifices" even if we are shooting them to achieve what would be a worthwhile goal (like stopping an armed robber or something).
state sponsored genocide
I'm tired of being at least relatively polite. Go fuck yourself, Mictlantecuhtli. Every argument against your point of view you are given you reduce to "you Russians perform genocide". WE ARE NOT DOING THAT. Tired of repeating.
Admittedly, you weren't really helped by a Pro-Soviet dude coming into the thread and saying he was totally happy about any possible genocides and was not going to feel bad about them in the slightest since they were a good thing. This was quite specifically the issue that raised the whole "sacrifice" thing, since it was said those victims were "sacrificed" for the good of Russia by that poster. You can disagree with that and still be Pro-Current-day-Russia, and I hope you do, but keep that context in mind here.