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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Nyororin,
Did you write that kind of as a reply to my posts?
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Not really. I skimmed through the thread, read the basic flow of talk and the opinions being expressed, and just wrote it out. That`s it. I actually completely agree with your statements that willing soldiers are different than civilians. When you go into something knowing full well what you`re doing, and being prepared for it - while it`s never a good thing to lose a life, there is a significant difference between death in that case and just a random murder.
I was actually thinking of writing a reply to just to support what you said, but then remembered about the great-uncles... And it was a little harder to just toss out support with no strings attached.
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Anyway, it is an entirly different issue altogether; using civilians as soldier is equally as retarded as murdering innocent civilians.
There used to be a time when, once your Army was lost, you admitted defeat and gave up.
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This is incredibly true. During WWII, Japan should have simply given up when it reached the point that it was tossing civilian "soldiers" out for slaughter. But it didn`t. Those at the top had no intention of giving up until the population was exhausted. I`ve heard (but have never seen any actual official documentation on it) from those who were in school back during the war that toward the end, they upped the physical education classes for the girls and were starting to talk about the possibility of them being sent to help in the war effort. Girls - just out of junior high school... With "strenuous phys ed" using a pointy stick being the "training" for a battle with bombs and guns.
The war ended before it got to that point, but I think that the average citizen felt so powerless and was so emotionally pushed into a corner by the propaganda that it
would have gone that far had the war not been put to an end.