At the end of the day, no sane person would place their family in mortal danger to maybe possibly potentially make life easier for a large number of unknown far away people.
Yes, see Romania 1989. Over 1000 people died in the streets but we got the job done.
> At the end of the day, no sane person would place their family in mortal danger to maybe possibly potentially make life easier for a large number of unknown far away people.
US military personnel did this. Invading Iraq increased the risk of terrorism in the US to make life easier for a few haliburton board members.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
[1]: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C...
Every democratic country in the world had at one point a few brave souls who were both sane and put themselves and their families in mortal danger to “maybe possibly potentially make life easier for a large number of unknown [not yet born] people”.
So yeah, it happens and is relatively common in history. I hope the Russian people find some extra courage and get Putin to step away from Ukraine and also Russia.