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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
As I said earlier, star wars is a movie where caricatures representing good go against caricatures representing evil in an epic battle accross the galaxy. I wasn't intending to introduce star wars into the conversation. Rather compare the narrative of the movie with the narratives of history that some in here are offering. Narratives I think are biased and not at all objective.
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I already thanked you for indulging me, and I said I can't make you participate in this indulgence.
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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
The Allies were evil too. Made up of colonial European powers who were also brutal in much of Africa and Asia as well as the United States which was all willing to defend that status quo.
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That is an interesting perspective, and I think speaks to the innate evil of war itself.
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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
The distinction is that the storm trooper is a soldier in the Imperial military. If you consider Japanese citizens as valid targets then by logic you must consider the people that died in the WTC towers valid too.
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I don't think I can let you off the hook on this one.
Last things first, those that attacked the Twin Towers on 9/11 certainly saw all the people that they killed as valid targets.
However, I didn't say all Japanese were legitimate targets, only that they didn't have the choice to not be Japanese, just as storm troopers didn't have the choice not to be storm troopers. That doesn't make the Japanese guilty, but just makes the storm troopers more innocent.