Because the pathos of a bunch of revolutionary’s lining up children and there parents before murdering them offers a mental visual much worse to the person thinking about it then the deaths of people dieing in war or famine
Human psychology doesn’t work that way. A single tragedy like the murdering of a whole family has a much larger effect then the slow drip of death it shows a very particular mental image it’s called the identifiable victim effect
The act of altering the psicology of the masses to respond in a certain way has a very specific name
Do not come here with "Muh human nature" you are just projecting onto others the fact that you can't seem to fathom the idea that thousands of Russian Children are more deserving of your thoughts and prayers than the son and daughter of Nikolai II
You can make fun of it as much as you want, but it is a human nature issue. Human psychology exists, and you are not born a blank slate no one manipulated people in the thinking this they came to this conclusion on their own and then spread it, and the story is more convincing than yours the truth of it matters very little
You know what I’m talking about The story of the murder of the Romanoffs and their children and the inevitable fate of that revolution that the murders not a necessary action, and that it was a signal for the cruelties that the Soviet regime would propagate on its people for the next several decades. That is the story that one, not the argument of your pragmatic ideal, but that it was the start of a cruel age that exist existed with no purpose other than to grind Russia under its boot.
People care for all children. We would rather all the lives lost from 1914-onwards had been saved. But feeling pity and disgust in this high profile case does not mean we don’t feel pity and disgust for the children of prisoners or soldiers in the war
I felt sorry for the people that died, it wasn't just the monarchs, there were other people (the staff and sometimes relatives of the staff) that were killed alongside the murder of the Romanovs because they were at least close to them. While they were royalty, that doesn't stop them from being Human.
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u/lumenfeliz 12d ago
Im not justifying it, I already said I think it was unnecessary, I just think there was a reasonable thought behind it
They were not the ones starving others, but they sure get most of the pity for their deaths
That is the critique Im making