also - it literally is eugenics. the belief that a human could decide for another person whether death (a "peaceful" one usually, and here a violent and brutal one) would be better than the circumstances they'd be in otherwise. it's been done to ethnical, neurodivergent, disabled people. the way the conflict is being portrayed in the media I'm receiving right now feels like canon fodder for western entertainment, when the focus should be on the pain of the victims and not how the toll of the dead is actually ignorable because --
death is never ignorable, death creates whirlpool of grief that will keep people hooked to revenge and sorrow and trauma. Ukrainian victims are overwhelmingly white, and their pain too doesn't resonate much with the media anymore but it is still taken into consideration when talking about the conflict. somehow that the action here is entirely set in the middle-east makes the discourse around it parasitic and voyeuristic, like there's not actual people being mutilated and bombed but little figurines for different ideologies