Usually I would do a character... But not for this one...
During WW2, Pearl Harbor isn't even the tip of the iceberg of the horrible things Japan did. They were raiding, raping, and experimenting on South East Asians, Chinese, and Koreans. One of these was Unit 731, and they forced people to get frostbite and attempted many "cures".
… is it bad I feel less bad about Hiroshima and Nagasaki now?
I’m gonna clarify for people because It really feels like people are misinterpreting what I’m saying. I don’t feel less bad about the civilians dying not at all. It’s terrible that’s civilians died. I feel less bad that it happened at all. If it was any other city that was purely civilian, I would not be saying this to begin with. However, Nagasaki and Hiroshima were evidently major players in the Japanese military. If the whole thing could’ve been avoided without the bombs needing to be dropped at all, I would’ve much preferred that, but I don’t really think the Japanese back then were the giving up type.
I mean we are talking about a Unit that created a literal plague bomb and dropped it on a Chinese City to see what would happen... Your your feelings are understandable...and let's not even begin to unravel the atrocities committed during what became known as: the Rape of Nanjing.
Funnily enough now, most Japanese people are chill in comparison to their WW2 counterparts.
Nah, that's an ice cold take. Germans were forced to watch their atrocities after the war ended and vowed never again. Even now their kids grow up watching what Adolf did, and they keep in it that way. The Japanese went denial for almost half a century, but kept trying to better themselves.
More of a semantic question than anything, how do you better yourself while being in denial? Seems counterproductive and would lead to future issues, or is that your point?
You can regret an action and still deeply desire no one find out about it. This you commit to never doing it again but you also deny it ever having happened. I might argue this is one of the more common ways people grow - avoid further mistakes but don’t admit to them.
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u/Korinth_NZ 2d ago
Usually I would do a character... But not for this one...
During WW2, Pearl Harbor isn't even the tip of the iceberg of the horrible things Japan did. They were raiding, raping, and experimenting on South East Asians, Chinese, and Koreans. One of these was Unit 731, and they forced people to get frostbite and attempted many "cures".