What Do You Think?

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I am not sure if it is good or bad that there are pacifist idiots in other countries around the world. I guess I sort of hoped that they were limited to the liberal idiots in the USA. Granted I would love to see a world where there is no need for guns, or bombs or military or police or courts were we all get along and do what is right.

But the cold hard truth is that there will always be people/countries that want to take more than they should, there will always be people/countries that want to dominate and bully others and there will always be those people/countries that no matter how much one tries to peacefully negotiate with them the only thing they understand is violence anything else is considered weakness.

Hopefully some of the liberal idiots in Japan will understand what this guy is trying to tell them.

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Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011

READERS IN COUNCIL
Nice slogans won't deter the bad


By JOSEPH MARRIOTT
Kure, Hiroshima

Regarding David Rothauser's March 10 letter, "Abolishing nuclear weapons use": Rothauser believes that nuclear weapons can be abolished "because we don't need them." Exactly how this ban is to be accomplished he does not say.

He mentions that one of his Japanese students said Japan bans handguns because "we don't need them." I suppose the student meant that, because of Japan's lower violent crime rates, most Japanese consider gun ownership for self-defense to be unnecessary. This blissful attitude might be small comfort for Japan's murder, rape or robbery victims. Japanese criminals seem to have little trouble finding knives or other weapons.

That aside, it is safe to say that the Japanese nation is located in a rather dangerous "neighborhood" when you consider that China, North Korea and Russia are not the friendliest of neighbors. The level of naivete of certain individuals is baffling. What in the world makes them believe that China or Russia is ever going to voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons? And what about North Korea, Iran and Pakistan?

Certainly it would be nice if all the bad people and bad governments in the world stopped doing bad things and gave up all their bad weapons. It would also be nice if Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny gave me lots of presents. Anyway, since Japan already benefits from the protection of the U.S. military, including its nuclear deterrent, it allows many self-deluding people to babble pacifist slogans and make themselves sound ridiculous.

The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the writer's own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Japan Times.