of course it's perfectly logical to you that if you burn everyone's retinas with the ultimate war, that they'll all immediately come to their senses and want peace at any cost. And that of course, humanity has always become immediately pacifist upon surviving a horrendous war of attrition. I mean, look at World War I -- boy, Europe and the Americas were just swept by a craze of pacifism as a result!
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This is not logic that resembles my earth logic
No, but it does resemble post-Hiroshima Japan logic. I strongly got the impression that the Japanese have adopted the belief that the horror of Hiroshima was a good thing, because it shocked the Japanese into ending the war and becoming the pacifistic nation they like to think they are today -- because the alternative, accepting that such a horrible thing happened to them and they will never, ever get justice for it, is too hard to bear.
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Date: 27 Jul 2010 06:43 am (UTC)Not.
This is not logic that resembles my earth logic
No, but it does resemble post-Hiroshima Japan logic. I strongly got the impression that the Japanese have adopted the belief that the horror of Hiroshima was a good thing, because it shocked the Japanese into ending the war and becoming the pacifistic nation they like to think they are today -- because the alternative, accepting that such a horrible thing happened to them and they will never, ever get justice for it, is too hard to bear.