Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "How Japanese See Foreign Tourists" video.

Japan should limit foreign influence, wealth does not have any seeming effect on the number of children people have so focusing on the wealth of the population is of secondary importance as wealth is worthless if there is no-one to inherit it. The fact the the West is having the same problem as Japan is enough to not bother with their solutions, one should only adopt solutions that actually work and most western solutions have if anything proven the opposite. The eraser of traditional values and culture is not reversible and thus is not something that should be entered into heedlessly.
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@DarwinSmyth That language is a bit dense and I’m not sure I fully understood. This is a youtube comments section not a polite dinner party you shouldn't have to worry about causing offence. I see no reason to destroy tradition for the sake of it, and it seems like often only after the fact it becomes obvious why the tradition was in place due to the effect its lack has. I have no particular scruples about changing society but I tend to think it should only be to the benefit of society itself. Confucianism and Christianity are both family based ideologies and both put considerable emphasis on how they think families should run and on ensuring they bear decedents, modern ideologies are very often based on the pursuit of money or the chasing of power, they are also overly reliant on influencing centralised education systems to ensure their spread rather than on the followers having kids, indeed kids are an afterthought and the personal freedom and expression of adults is often prioritised over their wellbeing. Humans are logical creatures who follow ideas, but if those ideas are resulting in unhappiness or are unsustainably over generations then I would tend to classify them as bad ones no matter their claims of moral legitimacy.
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@DarwinSmyth The flaw of Confucianism is certainly its conservatism with many opportunities throughout history being lost due to it, but population decline and a massive rise of stress without outside factors like mongols was never a concern. Christianity is not nearly that simple, if it makes sense it is both very individualistic and very communal at the same time, the social and political life is the life of the group but one has personal responsibility within that group due to the very particular view of morality it has, the extreme individualism is not Christian in a religious sense but comes out of people who made the assumption that the society that Christianity built is free of the moral foundations that built it, it might be a bit confusing but europeans fight with ideas like wars which means that a great deal can change over a short time. Basically the ideas of liberalism though they are very much based in a Christian view of the world are secular and outside of American conservatives the ideals of Rousseau are also very influential but are also downright anti-Christian, there is a belief that freedom and goodness are the natural state of man and that any impediment to personal freedom is oppressive (Rousseau also thought the natural human passions, vices as christians call them, are good because they are natural, I’m frankly surprised he wasn’t burnt). If you get into old Christian literature you will quickly discover that it is deeply at odds with modern western society, even if many church's attempt to placate or fit in to the new ideology and some were always a bit on the strange side (Quakers and Jehovahs Witnesses). The are no ideologies that don’t have up and down sides, they are ultimately a mediation of different peoples interests for the sake of a vision, but I don’t really think they become toxic aside from the effect power has on drawing in the power hungry, many of the flaws are inherent to the structure itself and the view them as toxic is often a matter of what values you prioritise in your perspective, but they ultimately will have a real world effect and values will have to face reality. If people don’t have families society will collapse and if people don’t have meaning they won’t be contented. We have to find a solution to our problems and taking about the flaws of the solution is irrelevant if they outweigh the cost of not implementing them.
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As a foreigner I find tourists really annoying, you should get rid of them.
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