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  42. ScienceDiscoverer: No one said that this issue only exist in Japan. But at least Japan is somewhat proactive about it, because they came up with a name and definition for the behaviour. It's hard discussing a problem and figuring out a solution to it, if you don't even have a name for it. In other countries, people afflicted would be described in vague and inaccurate terms like "wierdos", "outcasts", "loners" and so on, which doesn't really help them, or provide a comprehensive description of the problem. As to your own issues: the first thing you need to get through your head is that the world doesn't owe you anything. You are not entitled to anything and you only deserve something by claiming it and making yourself useful to society. Stop labeling people that you're jealous of as "extroverted" and yourself as "introverted". These terms don't help you understand the problem, they're only there to provide you with excuses for not leaving your comfort zone. You feel anxiety in social situations? You wonder if you will be socially accepted for who you are and what you say? Well boo-fucking-hoo, EVERYONE feels like that, unless they are psychopaths. Stop thinking that your anxiety is somehow "special" or "extra bad", because it's not. Leave your comfort zone. Expose yourself to "dangers". Hit on a woman in public and get rejected. Pick a fight with someone and get punched in the face. Spray some grafitti somewhere and get arrested for it. Go to a house party and greet and shake the hand of everyone there. Do these things and reflect on the end results. Did the rejection, getting punched in the face or getting arrested lead to the end of the world? Did it kill you? Did it hurt you physically or incapacitate you in any way? No, it won't. But right now, you don't know it from experience, because you've never left your comfort zone. So you'll never "feel" it, which is what you need to do to develop more confidence in social situations.
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  53. kama2135: Absolutely. And that's another issue that makes the issue further complicated: the fact that japanese students aren't taught about what happened. I'm not entirely sure of how prevalent it is, but from my impression, the japanese educational system (most likely under order from the government) really gloss over or ignore atrocities that the japanese government of the past has done. So many japanese citizens probably live in ignorance, which might make them feel unduly attacked by some koreans speaking out against it and react in a less desirable way that's not conducive to better relations, despite the fact that the criticism is quite valid. So I do agree with many people that the japanese government of today should acknowledge what happened more and start teaching the truth rather than try to gloss over the truth like they do now. I would argue that the average japanese person would agree that this would also be for the benefit of japan, because most japanese people of today seem quite pro-social and believe in virtues like cooperation and friendly relations and trade with other countries. And it's not like acknowledging the atrocities of the past and apologize for them out of respect of the victims would "cost" them anything. It's just the human, decent thing to do. Japan and South Korea are after all very similar in many ways. Both highly industrialized, free and prosperous societies in east asia. They both have everything to gain from improved relations and mutually beneficial cooperation would surely spring from an act of concession and public apology on the part of the japanese government.
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  71.  @deanjay6454  Personally I have a hard time respecting people who argue from a position of complaining. It's unbecoming of an adult. People in general should be more stoic. Citing hardships of what someone had to go through in the past in order to complain about what's going on today is very dishonest. None of us argue that women and men had it better in the past. There were a wide variety of gender based injustices. For women it could be not being able to file for a divorce. But for men it could be conscription and being sent to die in a war, regardless if the man wanted to go or not. But those are problems of the past. They aren't relevant today. And women living today certainly shouldn't be given any extra benefits just because women in the past faced injustices. And the same goes for men. If you're going to tackle problems of today, they should be treated as current day problems and be scrutinized in their own context, and not by dragging up a bunch of injustices that have existed in the past but are long since gone due to new legislation. But this is what cultural marxists do all the time. They whine and complain about the past to justify their theft of today. But take it to it's logical extreme: where does it end? Human history is rife with atrocities, wars of conquest and government oppression. If we're going to run around and "give back" all that was ever taken, all of society and the world will be plunged into chaos and the majority of people who acted in good faith (for example, people who purchased land with their own money that was conquered at some point in the past) will be destitute in the process. Whatever changes we make, can only be on a "from now on"-basis. There is no valid way for anyone to "correct" the past.
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  96. Chí Thiện Nguyễn: Do you deny that the Vietnamese enemies of Korea and the U.S did things like hide weapons caches in civilian villages and towns? Do you deny that Vietnamese fighers hid themselves among civilian populations and staged attacks by using civilians? There are tons of reports of vietnamese children being sent as suicide bombers by groups like the Vietcong and the like in order to kill and maim U.S and Korean troops during the conflict. It's actions like that which cause troops to consider all civilians to be potential hostiles and leads to further innocent deaths. Put yourself in their shoes. Just the day before you had soldier buddies getting blown to pieces by a civilian suicide bomber, you're in a foreign country, scared for your life and rumors circulate everywhere that there are enemy troops hiding among the civilians. Do you seriously believe that you'd be able to make sure that you or your superior officer never harms an innocent civilian under those conditions? If anything you should place your blame on the Vietnamese armed forces who were willing to resort to such underhanded tactics. The U.S troops didn't send civilian suicide bombers to deal with their enemies, and they always wore uniforms. Real soldiers wear uniforms to show which side they're on, even so the enemies know it and so their enemies DON'T go chasing after innocent civilians in pursuit of them. When you start using civilians to attack enemy troops then YOU are the one who paints a target on civilians backs, not the enemy.
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  368.  @ingridlinbohm7682  Just read about the Azov Batallion and see for yourself. It's not a russian who authored the many articles about them. And it doesn't matter if Zelensky is jewish or not, because it wouldn't be the first time where a jewish person of influence would consort with nazi groups to further their own ends, or when neo-nazis consort with jews to further their ends. The real crux of the matter is exactly how influential the neo-nazi views are in Ukraine or not. Putin's propaganda is to say that Ukraine is completely infested with neo-nazi ideology. The Ukranian propaganda either claims they do not exist, or that they do exist but that they are small and merely "tolerated". Either way, to claim that neo-nazis do not exist in Ukraine is objectively false. And what makes it worse is that even spokespeople from the Azov Batallion have themselves admitted that 10-20 % of their members hold neo-nazi views. And what makes it worse is that the Batallion has been funded by the Ukranian government since before this war took place. You'll be hard pressed to find any country in the EU or the Anglosphere where the government would ever consider to use taxpayers money to fund ANY organization with neo-nazi members in this day and age. Putin probably exaggerates the problem to serve his narrative. I'm not denying that. But at the same time, if you oppose Putin then you're really not doing yourself any favors by pretending that Neo-Nazi ideology simply doesn't exist in Ukraine or that Neo-Nazi actors aren't getting a government paycheck because they DO. And it has been going on for years.
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  378. Heavy Rotation: I agree. South Korea and Japan sadly seems to have been stricken with "the grass is always greener"-complex regarding the west. Many of them idealize and fetischize the west in a very undeserved way, even to the point where they don't appreciate their own, unique facial features, hair and such. Personally I blame the long standing culture of conformity in east asia that still has a bit too tight grip on the Japanese and Korean societies. To a japanese or a korean person, the west must seem very individualistic because western culture celebrates the independent thinker and personality and those who challenges social taboos. I'm convinced that in many korean and japanese citizens there are very individualistic personalities that want to express themselves, but they can't because both societies are traditionally very conformist. So people grow displeased with their own societies and culture, which manifests itself in an obsession and fetishizing of the foreign culture that seems more ideal. I don't mean to be arrogant when I say it. I don't presume to tell other societies what they should do, because as a nationalist I have respect for national sovreignty. But, I would humbly suggest that maybe Koreans and Japanese people need to take a hard look at their culture of conformity and ask themselves if it actually makes them happy in life and if there is room for any adjustments to it that allows individuals to express themselves more freely in terms of ideas, clothing, hair etc. I'm not saying it has to be so overdone like it is here in the west (because we have major societal problems in the west that stems from the pursuit of individualism), but a slight adjustment might be worth trying out.
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  396. 안나Anna: No, animals most certainly don't. And if "balance" was the issue, then how come child births and nativity are stagnating in pro-LGBT societies to unsustainiable levels, but the same thing is not happening in anti-LGBT societies? Suppose that your assumption was correct and that homosexuality was a phenomenon generated by a lack of balance in a population (implied overpopulation), then we wouldn't see the statistical figures of child births dropping below an average of 2 children per couple. But in practically every country that has embraced the pride-idiocy we're seeing the average drop below 2. And that is a clear sign of a dangerous population decline and a society growing old in terms of average age. This will have disastrous humanitarian effects on the countries afflicted, because the older an average population in a society gets, the more the few young people will have to work in order to finance the pensions and welfare of old people who are too old, frail and diseased to work. Or, failing that, society will simply be forced to leave it's older generation out to dry (no geriatric care to the elderly, no supvervised retiremenrt homes to help them get through their daily lives with dignity etc.) Either way, this development will have massive humanitarian reprecussions. And as we've already seen abundant proof of in both Europe and the U.S, importing uneducated migrants from the third world does not create any solution to the low fertility. It only generates more costs since the majority of migrants remain unemployed for years and even decades putting extra strain on the welfare budget, and many of them even resort to criminal behaviour, creating a further financial burden for the societies that takes them in. Given the choice of having the economy completely collapse in western countries, forcing young western citizens to work even more than they already do or leaving the elderly simply to die in pain amd anguish. OR Discouraging homosexuality because homosexuals do not lead lifestyles conducive to procreation. Then i'm sorry, i'm going to go with the latter. Homosexuals "right" to live as sexual deviants is not more important than the sustainiability and survival of our economies and societies.
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  426.  @trancer4e4life  I don't believe it will. The desenstization you experience is part of growing up. A lot of bad things happen in the world all the time. It's always been happening. If we always ended up feeling as strongly about every incident we merely hear about as the first time we heard about an awful crime, it's fair to say that we'd go insane. That's why reactions to crimes that do not happen in our near vicinity get a bit dulled with age. It's a coping mechanism. Trust me though, if you ever witness horrible and violent crime first hand. You will be shocked. I too thought I was completely desensitized for a time after having read about gruesome murders and seen atrocities in pictures and videos. I thought nothing would give me pause anymore. And then I saw just a "regular" beating in real life where the victim was badly injured. It was a very shocking experience. The only thing more shocking was when I was involved in a knife fight and had to defend my very life. What these experiences have taught me is that if people live such sheltered lives that all they have to get upset by is deepfake porn, they're really some of the lucky ones. What I despise about our current culture is how we've normalized outrage over the most insignificant and tangibly harmless things (like deepfake porn). People in general really lack perspective of how much worse off they could be when they let such minor grievances get under their skin like that. Every person do exert a degree of control over how badly they let things affect them emotionally. And I will never stop encouraging people to seize that control for themselves, because I genuinely believe that you'll be a better person and have better mental health when you stop believing that every little grievance, insult or slight means the end of the world.
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  458.  @freesian59  Thank you for your perspective Tanaka. I guess my main points can be condensed to the following: People should not hate other people for what happened in past wars. Governments declare war and send soldiers to war. People generally do not. (people generally don't even get a say in the matter) If ones own government committed atrocities, then one should condemn it. If ones own government committed atrocities and refuse to apologize or own up to it, then one should also condemn it. I'm not saying that a government should have to pay money to make up for things (I generally dislike the principle that money could somehow weigh up for killings or rapes, because it implies that you can purchase your way out of guilt and responsibility with money), an apology doesn't cost anything so it's the least a government can do. The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atrocious. It is a chapter that no government on earth should've opened. But with that said, The Japanese did fight in very atrocious ways. It was as if the Emperor had mobilized the entire country to fight to the death. In more "normal" warfare, soldiers fight until either side is strategically and tactically incapacitated and that side then surrenders. Yet the japanese government had basically institutionalized suicide bombings. They didn't care how many lives they threw away in their war effort. They spent lives of young men like other nations spend bullets. When an enemy crosses that line, then you can't really fight a "normal" war against them. It's not that different from the way that muslim terrorist organizations fight today to be honest. One has to think about what would've happened if the Americans didn't use the nuclear bombs. Let's assume that they instead chose to land troops on mainland japan and fight a land war over there. What would the japanese government do? How many more lives would they throw away in such a situation? How many japanese civilians would be coerced or even drawn to the calling of martyrdom and staging suicide attacks on american troops, putting the american soldiers in a situation where they basically have to treat every single japanese person they see as a potential hostile only to stay alive themselves? Even today, Japan seems to struggle with a kind of suicide culture. An alarming amount of japanese people take their own lives, and this seems to be a cultural holdover from times in the past where suicide was considered a noble act to restore lost honour. One can only imagine how such a culture would manifest itself if the U.S had pursued a land war in Japan instead. Of course it's speculation, but there's a very real possibility that even more lives would've been lost as a result on both sides. I don't wish to offend you by playing the devils advocate here, but with the nuclear bombings, they at least had the desired effect. They forced the imperial japanese government to surrender. It took the complete destruction of two cities to get them to see that no amount of "noble suicide" would be able to stop such an attack. They must have realized that the U.S could obliterate every single city in Japan if necessary so there wouldn't have been much left to fight over. At the time, it seemed like the japanese were convinced that as long as they sent more people to die, eventually they would win. Surrender was not an option... Until the nuclear bombs dropped. Thankfully they did surrender after that. And that was also probably the last time the U.S did the responsible thing after they go to war with another country. They stayed behind and helped rebuild and made an effort to improve relations with their defeated foes and work towards becoming allies. Sadly, this has not been a norm for the U.S since. They have suffered from very irresponsible leadership that starts wars with other countries, destroy their governments and infrastructure, and then simply leaves the country in shambles. (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria etc.) But with Japan, relations have just been getting better. And both countries have flourished financially since. I don't think any member of the armed forces in the U.S look back at the atomic bombings with any sense of "pride" either. In a serious conversation about it with americans, most seem to consider it a dark chapter of their countrys history, which it most certainly was. It's not something they "wanted", but at the time they couldn't see any other option. But one needs to look towards the future. The hatchet is buried and japanese and american citizens only stands to benefit from friendly relations with eachother. Oh and just to put it into perspective: i'm not an american myself. This is just my view of the situation from the outside. So I don't have this view because i'm biased towards a U.S perspective or anything.
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  527. JamlessJiminie: Well aren't you a biological defect? Biology is, after all, living cells trying to procreate and reproduce at the core of it. Suppose that all human beings or another species evolved to be entirely homosexual. What would happen to that species then when less and less of it's individual members engage in heterosexual reproduction and have less and less offspring? That species would eventually die out within a few generations. So if you are a homosexual, then it's pretty self-evident that you are a defect because your sexuality is unsustainable across generations. Your attraction and sexual habits can never lead to procreation, so your sexuality is therefore an evolutionary dead end. A living species needs fertile heterosexual members that procreates to survive. A homosexual that can't reproduce is just dead weight when all is said and done. Luckily for you, we have developed technologies and a society that will allow you to lead a fulfilling life anyway. We even have technologies that could allow you to reproduce genetically as well, as long as you can accept the usage of sperm donors or surrogate mothers. But the fact that our species has managed to invent technological means to circumvent the shortcomings of your defective nature doesn't make your defects any less of a defect. We have invented wheelchairs as well for people who have disabled legs. Wheelchairs help these people live something closer to normal lives, but wheelchairs doesn't magically turn their disability into a non-disability, just like surrogate mothers and sperm donors cannot make gay people less defective. I don't think you are helped by trying to delude yourself that your defects aren't really defects at all.
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  545. WithBrittany: I understand. I guess when I think of the word "culture" it basically means the whole package. While the aesthetic and culinary aspects like you mention are certainly part of a culture, I'd say that certain ingrained values and moral beliefs also compose a part of culture as well. And some, very traditional, conservative people tend to believe that you'll "lose" your culture if you change some of the values and morals. But I'd argue that both South Korea and Japan are very good examples of Asian cultures who have successfully adopted certain changes to their culture with many influences from the west (like in the tech industries and economy) while still maintaining a great emphasis on the traditional aesthetics and culinary practices in a very harmonious and balanced way. People from Korea still seem to put great value on things like hanbok, traditional hanok houses and such while still very capable of adapting to and incorporating international practices and activities that serve to benefit the country financially and making it a powerful country in global trading. This is something I try to highlight as a shining example in my own country. Being a European, sadly we're afflicted by a "multiculturalist" political movement, that seems more hellbent on completely destroying everything that sets my own countrys culture apart from others, even to the point where they try to eliminate and/or ridicule things like aesthetics and traditional foods. So when I try to argue against it I tell people to look to South Korea and Japan and how you have successfully maintained a balance and harmony between the traditional and the imported. But still it breaks my heart a little to think that some koreans may feel a cultural pressure to give up their children for adoption if they're not born with perfect health. So that's where I see that some changes might be proper.
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  553. Christopher Nelson: Everything about humans bottles down to functions of biology. Including human psychology and the social behaviours, norms as well as taboos. If you look at sex and attitudes towards sex from a strictly evolutionary perspective, then promiscuity in women is a clear deviant behaviour and has quite valid explanations as to why promiscuity in women is discouraged. This because women can only produce a limited amount of eggs through their ovaries during their lifetime, whereas men can produce sperm cells at ages where the majority of women are completely infertile. Also, pregnancies in women are relatively long and usually only result in a single offspring. And when the baby is born, it also require years of nurture and protection in order to mature to adulthood and become self-sufficient and be able to carry on the genes of it's parents. In the modern world we have access to birth control in the form of contraceptives as well as abortions. But these inventions are relatively new, and it would be naively optimistic to assume that human psychology and behaviour should've evolved fast enough to take birth control into account. In a fully natural context, women can't control pregnancy. In nature, women have a survival imperative to be strictly selective regarding mates and only invest her limited eggs with a worthy partner. For men it's completely different. The genetic survival strategy for the male gender is to impregnate as many women as possible in the hope that some of his offspring will survive to adulthood. This is what is known as "sexual conflict" in biology. Women and men, on account of their different reproductive organs have different strategies and clashing biological interests in how they pass along their genes. And from the male perspective, there is also a biological justification to avoid selecting a long term mate who exhibit signs of promiscuity. Because if a man does settle down with a woman who sleeps around, then he also risks wasting his nurturing efforts on offspring that doesn't belong to him. Once again, scientific acheivements allows humans to test if offspring is really theirs, but we can't assume that our psychology and social instincts have been able to evolve fast enough to "catch up" with these recent inventions.
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  604. sourC0W: the elderly will earn more per hour, but being elderly they will not work as MANY hours as younger employees, which means that companies will need to hire more elderly employees to do the IT, accounting and secretary work. So in the end, the wage total will become more equal over time. The point is to stop an untenable situation where elderly people are forced into doing hard manual labour which they don't have the constitution for, and get young people off their asses from office jobs (which is not healthy for their bodies anyway) and get the appropriate age categories assigned to appropriate jobs that fits their physical capabilities better. Also regarding the concept of "unfair". Fairness is an entirely subjective concept. Your suggestion of tokenism and quotas have already been tried and it doesn't work in practice. All it does is amplify stereotypes and bigotry in the work place since law mandated quotas of representation means that everyone assumes by default that a woman, black guy or muslims at the workplace only got their jobs because of state quotas and not because of ability. Age limits are much less discriminatory in that regard since all humans grow older, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender. And like I've already pointed out: we have age limits for plenty of positions and priviliges in society already (legal drinking age, legal driving age, legal working age, legal age to own firearms, even a legal age to have sex) and the public backlash has never been particularly significant. Instead most of society agrees that age limits to things are completely reasonable and logical. Therefore convincing the population of age limits for certain kinds of jobs won't be a problem. Also, in older societies, age limits were the standard practice. You could never reach "master" or "grandmaster" titles within a trade guild before a certain age, no matter how much of a child prodigy you might've been at your craft. It was also standard practice within most trade guilds that the physically harder tasks for any project was assigned to the younger novices, apprentices and journeymen while the more intellectually demanding and planning stages was done by the adepts, masters and grand masters of the guild.
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  624. Luis Carrion: Refugees should just be turned away at the border. I'm not interested in what might get them to become refugees, because it's not my or the western worlds problem. Renewable energy sources have a certain strategic value, yes. Because it's bad for ones military strategy to be dependant on fuel derived from resources mostly found in other countries. The problem is: electricity is not as versatile as an energy source as petroleum based fuels are. Electricity might work fine when you need to go a limited distance with your tesla and have it parked for several hours to recharge. But if you have to pull a heavy load with a truck, or shift dirt with a bulldozer or (if we move over to military strategy): drive a tank or fly a jet fighter, then suddenly electricity is utterly useless as an energy source. As long as the U.S means of defense is powered by petroleum based products, the U.S is forced to ensure stable pipelines of crude oil into it's own country. To let crude oil producing trading partners succumb to civil wars ane insurrections means compromising the U.S military as a whole, and that can never be allowed to happen under any circumstance considering how many enemies the U.S has in the world. If they can manage to develop electrically powered jet fighters or tanks however, with an operating range that rivals that of petroleum powered variants, then it might be a different story. But until such innovations have been invented (and that's a big "if" because it's not even sure that you can build something like it), crude oil has to stay.
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