Yakov Krotov

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2 March 2026

On February 28, 2026 three missiles hit Minab in Iran. One missile hit a school and more than 100 girls perished.

American Tim Hawkins said, according to BBC: "The protection of civilians is of utmost importance, and we will continue to take all precautions available to minimise the risk of unintended harm."

This justification means that the tragedy was «unintended». Intention was to bomb army base which is located about 600m. from the school.

This is a pseudo-justification. It is based on the assumption that intention I very important. But any murderer candy that his intentions were good. Any aggressor has a good intentions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

BBC gives another justification:

«One user wrote: "Even if the regime did not directly target schools, the deaths of children in Minab remain the responsibility of the Islamic Republic. People have no shelters, the internet is cut, phone lines are down, and there has been no warning to keep children out of school. In these conditions, the minimum requirement should be to stay at home."

The attack was unexpected. It was unexpected to the degree that all leaders of Iran were killed.

BBC forgot the best (although false) justification: Iran made a "live shield", placing the army base in the vicinity of a school.

All these reasons can be summed up in Aesop’s fable about a wold and a lamb and English proverb "Might makes right".

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l7rvqq51eo

Content

5 February 2026

Three types of communication: connection, monologue, dialogue

The concept of "communication" encompasses very diverse phenomena. You can tie a dog and a cat together with a rope. There will be a connection between them. They will be dependent on each other. Similarly, you can tie two corpses together and throw them from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. There will be a connection, a communication between them.

Communication of such type is purely mechanical and is determined by the laws of gravity. Such mechanical communication ("connection," "contact") is also abundant in relationships between living people. True, this is not always evident not joyfully recognized.

It is not always a negative phenomenon, of course; it is often simply the basis of existence, which goes unnoticed, just as the existence of trillions of bacteria within a person goes unnoticed. But such a mechanical connection can be precisely communication, in which the other person is treated as an object. This is precisely the inhumanity of the relationship between slave owner and slave.

А slave, however, can rebel, unlike a corpse. However, his rebellion is not communication in the strict sense. It is a monologue. Here we come to the next type of communication. The second type of communication can be described as "biological communication." A plant, an animal, or a human sends an impulse ("monologue") and monitors the result.

This impulse may be necessary to seek warmth, light, shelter, water, food, reproduction, or entertainment. This is not a monologue in the strict sense—a monologue is merely a truncated dialogue.

Dialogue is precisely the type of communication specific to humans. Human self-awareness can be considered a "brain hallucination," but it cannot be denied that humans are capable of a type of communication that is absent—or, more accurately, has not yet been identified—in other animals, including humans' closest relatives.

This communication is far from merely verbal, completely unnecessary for survival and reproduction, "purposeless," "a-pragmatic." This communication doesn't always create community, but it also doesn't always create personality. This communication can also be a destructive force, generating "evil" in its specific human sense.

 

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