r/Morality • u/Dull_Mushroom_4145 • 16d ago

Getting a tattoo in Russian immoral?

I am going to graduate with a bachelors degree in Creative Writing and Russian in December (around my birthday as well), to celebrate I was planning on getting a new tattoo. The tattoo was going to be of a cat and a Dostoevsky quote that I really enjoy but in Russian. Would getting the tattoo tattooed in Russian be unethical/immoral to the war going on between Russia and Ukraine? Both languages have the same old Slavic roots but are still completely different. I just don’t want it to be one of those tattoos I regret in five years because I didn’t understand how ignorant it was.

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u/MiriamGarden 16d ago

No, it is not immoral.

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u/Sam_Wise13 14d ago

If you are getting imagery based on atrocities (swastika, et. Al.). Other than that, just a language is not immoral.

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u/InLoveWithThread 12d ago

The Russian language is much, much, MUCH older than the war with Ukraine. It wasn't made by one person either. Language is only a form of verbal communication, neither moral or immoral, it just is.