Also, fuck France; not for being cowardly or anything else the British roast them for, but for being ruthless imperialists

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    The things you are listing are things of the past and french interests and ambitions have shifted a lot in the last twenty years. Change is coming constantly and we must look forward and judge them based on who they are today, what evils they are committing today, whom they leave unpunished and what are they reasonably doing to right the wrongs of the past.

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      Oh man, that’s a great excuse! I’ll use it when the police eventually catch up to me. I’m a different person now, no longer the one who stole from the orphanage and burned it and everyone in it to the ground!

      Listen, if you don’t own up to your past mistakes and analyse why you did them I promise you you will make those mistakes again. It’s less about punishing the mistakes and more about learning from them and becoming better by taking the right lessons from them. And the first step is to accept that you were the one to make them.

      Be like Germany and Italy, not Japan.

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        Difference is that you are very much a different person and the person that did the crime is either out of power, imprisoned or dead. Companies and countries aren’t people.

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          Japan it is!

          That’s the great thing about consequences. They will happen regardless of what arguments you throw at it. Only two choices, one could be wise about it, or you could be foolish.