Well alright, I concede the evidence seems compelling that Putin might have used murder, torture, subjugation, terror and all-round unethical behaviour to achieve and maintain power. So? So what? Homo Sapiens' society is built on those very attributes (perhaps slightly added to a smattering of creativity and abstract-thinking). Obviously inconvenient and painful to have it happen to you, I grant you, but let's face it: a double standard is logically irreconcilable and it is the one distinguishing trait most likely* not shared by the Neanderthal, Denisovans, Homo Heidelbergensis, whatever - they all went extinct. Now the grip of religion is mostly gone, communities are diffused and ethics just impede the self. Politics, power, materialism, inequality and force is the only thing that's really idolized. Not morals, or decency, or manners, or self-restraint. This is obviously the way forward.
Putin is surely just embracing his nature more openly?
* That's a really far-out supposition and not actually mine.
