4th August 2004, 9:01 PM
Quote:Until we spanked it out of them. Honestly, so very many of them died due to their ridiculous notions that "to die is far better than to surrender", and this attitude resulted in them never taking our people prisoner. When we finally deployed the most powerful thing anyone had ever seen, they realized their previous twisted values had failed them. Sure, they are loosing their old Bushido code (not that there's been much around for the last few generations I think), but that's a GOOD thing because those values are wrong, and it was proven during WW2 that they only resulted in horribile tragedy. So they are loosing a big part of their old culture, good riddance!
Heh, don't let N_A hear you say that. :D
Quote:They had been conditioned to follow what the government said and do as they were told no matter their personal feelings, and that is exactly what they did. By the end of the war the whole nation was most probably at the point where millions would have died willingly to protect the Emperor if we had invaded and he had commanded it... on that accord the A-Bomb might have actually saved more lives than it killed. But that's a really tough question. By the very end there was a sizable group in government that wanted peace (it had been obvious for several years that winning was impossible) and was just looking for an excuse... the A-Bomb provided that,
Dude! I totally said that during our WWII/Japan debate and you got mad at me!
Sometimes you get the scorpion.