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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
David,
The point here is that you cannot ignore that hatre. You have to acknowledge it exists for whatever reason. You have to deal with that hatre and find ways not to let it explode.
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I'm not ignoring the hatred, nor am I denying its origins. But I am denying it being justified. As for defusing it, one side of that coin has been partially addressed - refer to Wiki's long list of apology statements. As for eliminating the revisionist textbooks and shrine-visits, I confess I'm neither an Japanese educational expert nor a shrine expert, but it doesn't take a genius to recognise their moral bankruptcy and the need to fix it.
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So he advocates war. Show him the kind of monster he needs to be in order to goto war. If he is that kind of monster, kill him.
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I think I have in the intellectual sense - he certainly hasn't addressed the 'shrine-visits and worth going to war, eh?' beyond the emotional counter, "what would you do?" which I think I've answered quite personally with the grandfather-dying-after-two-days-of-internal-bleeding and me-still-not-wanting-Russian-democide matter.
But killing him in the military sense? Not only am I neither enlisted nor commissioned, I also believe in free speech - including the right of super-nationalists to advocate war. A free society reaches its most profound expression when it protects actions considered stupid, unpopular or both. I don't know about Chinese popularity for war against Japan (especially once informed of the likely US-related terrible effects of such a conflict) but his want for revenge is pretty stupid and irrational at the moment.