Russia Sanctions: Rabid Insanity of Punishing Innocent People

 I've been having a but of a spat on Twitter and YouTube in the comments on various posts demanding the West do more to punish Russia.

I've stood up and said that punishing Russians just for being Russian is unlawful, unjust and unfair. Because they have no influence over the Russian government, so why should they be punished?

But some of the responses that I've received just show how the media have stirred up the mob mentality.

Basically the jist is that "58% of Russians voted for Putin, so they are all guilty".

So let's set aside the 58% figure. What about the 42% that didn't vote for him? Do they deserve to be punished as well then? How do you segregate Russians who support and that oppose Putin?  Are you going as far as saying they should put their lives on the line in Russia and protest against the war and then maybe we'll not sanction them? 

They don't seem to understand how insane their viewpoint that ALL Russians should be punished for the crimes of their government. 

Basically the media have tarred ALL Russians as evil and that they should be essentially erased from the face of the planet, or at the very least not invited to polite dinner parties. 

I mean, my go-to example is Nikita Mazepin, the F1 driver. He's lost his job in F1 and to add insult to injury has had his assets frozen and seized. Now I could understand the legality of doing this IF he'd been in the Russian government and had earned his fortune whilst in government. 

But he's a fucking racing driver and has earned his money racing cars. He's not served in the Russian government, so why is he being punished? His money has been earned legally.

For Being Russian. 

Now this rings warning bells with me. It's just like the persecution of Jews for the crime of being Jewish, or the persecution of unvaccinated people for being unvaccinated.

This instant unpersoning, instant demonisation of people has to stop. Because at some point it will go too far and before you know it we'll be rounding up people and loading them into camps for "processing".

Or is that what the authorities are desinsitising us to? Will there eventually be a class or race of people that the authorities will eventually want to cull from the population?

Just be careful people and really think what is happening here with some depth and not the shallow knee-jerk reaction the press and media are goading you into.