Questions Regarding the Moral Responsibility of Japan
Day 756, 20:45
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by exReality
People of Japan and other Nations,
Do we, as a nation have a moral responsibility to help our neighbors? Is being neutral at a time of need justified? Is it equivalent of committing the crime?
These are three simple yet ever-complex questions to have only a single answer.
Our nation Japan subscribes to the noble belief-- the Righteous Nation Philosophy but our moral burden weighs far heavier. Before our responsibility to Japan, comes the moral responsibility which takes in its deepest essence resides in our soul- as an individual human being. A human being is a citizen of the Universe before being a citizen of Japan, before being a citizen of Serbia, and before being a citizen of any nation. A citizen of the Universe who fights against oppression, who fights against imperialism.
Imagine you were walking to school in a perfectly ordinary day.. Clear blue sky, great weather surrounded by the sunshine and today is the day, you decided to wear the new clothes you have bought. Suddenly bam!- You hear the water splash. You look over to see that a little child, barely the age of three, has fallen into a pool and the child will drown unless you help. You are then faced with the following choice: save the child by diving in the pool (assuming you can swim) or you can walk to school as if nothing happened.
I would like to think all of us will save the child at the minuscule cost of ruining our clothes. But if we had walked away from the child and simply continued on to school as if nothing had happened, have we essentially murdered the child?
Similarly our duty to our Asian neighbors is ideologically the same. Our short temporary discomfort, for the betterment and the freedom for our neighbors. China is suffering oppression and so is our brothers in India. We can no longer ignore those pleas, simply because it makes us uncomfortable.
We have the moral responsibility to carry out that duty and we made the choice we had the power to make. We chose to do the best we can, to help end the cries of our brothers and we made the choice to help the child drowning in the pool. You can disagree with our choice but you cannot deny the outlining humanitarian principles and the acceptance of moral responsibility behind the mentality and the thought behind that choice. Japan gains nothing by making this decision, except we have the pleasure of knowing we have fulfilled our duties and we have accepted our moral responsibility and we will continue to do so, even if it costs us our neutrality. However, we will continue to maintain an equal distance from both super-alliances and we will speak out and fight for the freedom of Asia.
Do we, as a nation have a moral responsibility to help our neighbors? Is being neutral at a time of need justified? Is it equivalent of committing the crime?
These are three simple yet ever-complex questions to have only a single answer.
Our nation Japan subscribes to the noble belief-- the Righteous Nation Philosophy but our moral burden weighs far heavier. Before our responsibility to Japan, comes the moral responsibility which takes in its deepest essence resides in our soul- as an individual human being. A human being is a citizen of the Universe before being a citizen of Japan, before being a citizen of Serbia, and before being a citizen of any nation. A citizen of the Universe who fights against oppression, who fights against imperialism.
Imagine you were walking to school in a perfectly ordinary day.. Clear blue sky, great weather surrounded by the sunshine and today is the day, you decided to wear the new clothes you have bought. Suddenly bam!- You hear the water splash. You look over to see that a little child, barely the age of three, has fallen into a pool and the child will drown unless you help. You are then faced with the following choice: save the child by diving in the pool (assuming you can swim) or you can walk to school as if nothing happened.
I would like to think all of us will save the child at the minuscule cost of ruining our clothes. But if we had walked away from the child and simply continued on to school as if nothing had happened, have we essentially murdered the child?
Similarly our duty to our Asian neighbors is ideologically the same. Our short temporary discomfort, for the betterment and the freedom for our neighbors. China is suffering oppression and so is our brothers in India. We can no longer ignore those pleas, simply because it makes us uncomfortable.
We have the moral responsibility to carry out that duty and we made the choice we had the power to make. We chose to do the best we can, to help end the cries of our brothers and we made the choice to help the child drowning in the pool. You can disagree with our choice but you cannot deny the outlining humanitarian principles and the acceptance of moral responsibility behind the mentality and the thought behind that choice. Japan gains nothing by making this decision, except we have the pleasure of knowing we have fulfilled our duties and we have accepted our moral responsibility and we will continue to do so, even if it costs us our neutrality. However, we will continue to maintain an equal distance from both super-alliances and we will speak out and fight for the freedom of Asia.
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Voted. I'm proud of you. : )
voted!
thousand years
FOR EMPEROR! (although he has a different point of view)
truth
Very well written, I liked it a lot.
Voted.
Hm~ A strong statement.
I look forward to the nation uniting in the liberation of the eSouth Korean regions currently occupied by eJapan so we can show our true rightousness to the world.
voted. for an eNation, short term discomfort is okay, long term discomfort is bad.
Hm why didnt you react when other countries were occupied by eRomania, eCroatia and others?
Yonsil was cheering the Romanian invasion of Bulgaria.
Bunch of hippocrits.
You fullfilled your duty helping the US to get their own High Iron region.
Yonsil is a hypocrite, true. ExReality is cool.
And what if the pool is full of pirhanas that will kill you along with the child if you dive in? I don't think eJapans concerns are equal to "simply getting your clothes wet."
Please... dude, this is game. Conquest is why I play!
Concise and to the point. Voted.
What this article ignores is that before we provoked the war China was in absolutely no danger. The danger of Russian invasion, while unlikely, now exists when it did not before precisely because of President Dokomo's ultimatum.
@Vicki, please tell me these concerns Japan has after getting Kyushu and soon-to-be getting hospital and defense system back.
@Sophia
Actually, no it doesn't. It talks about the morality of the choice meaning it is not taking a consequentialist perspective of "ends justify the mean". Instead the choice was made because it was the right thing to do. Sorry if a threat of Russian invasion might loom over us because we chose to do what was right. But sometimes doing what's right isn't that easy.
truly, a great read. You are a gentlemen and a scholar!
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Why don't you just merge with the United States under their flag? -.-
Because Japan has nothing to do with United States?
Why are posting here anyway? Aren't you supposed to be busy PTOing yet another small country and convincing them to join PEACE/PHOENIX?