- icantfindaname
- Jul 1, 2008
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Yeah, hakimashou's posts are kinda unsettling because you can tell that he gets some sort of pleasure from the idea of leveling violent justice on people/groups who "deserve it."
It should go without saying that every single citizen of a country is not equally guilty for its actions in wartime. While there's some degree of shared guilt in a situation where the guilty government in question was elected, even then not every citizen shares blame. Some random woman trying to raise her children in poverty in Japan is not responsible for Japan's actions during WW2, and there's no justice in incinerating her with fire bombs.
Also, the idea that "good will" (which literally anyone can claim) justifies anything is completely insane and morally repulsive. I'm imagining some sort of comic book villain who kills people in order to free them from life's suffering, and then hakimashou talks about how morally courageous it is for him to be killing those people with good intentions.
the idea of collective guilt, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, etc, all are inherently nationalistic, as the agent which bears the guilt is the nation, and the nation is thus implicitly endorsed as a valid collectivity of individuals
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