Tomboys_are_Cute [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • Your question is loaded with too many assumptions. You assume international laws as they stand are good as they stand, you assume torture works to obtain information, but more than that you assume these forces exist in a vacuum. By your logic and with your assumptions obviously evil is more powerful but you’ve papered over so much that the answer to your question is meaningless.

    There is also the materialist part of your problem which is it assumes both sides have access to the same resources (and that they work the way you think they do). How many more Good people are there than Evil? Do the Evil people have the knowledge and skills to produce the weapons to facilitate the tactics you lay out or would they rely on Good people to produce them? If they do then what happens if the Good people object to making the weapons that facilitate their winning tactics? How can the Evil people conscript the Good people into performing their duty without those weapons?

    Finally it assumes states act in unified ways under central control, and that everyone in those states are state actors and act under command of the state. There is no country in the history of the world where that has ever been true, not only does it go against the concept of free will (which your name suggests you don’t believe in) it also assumes that either states are conscious entities of themselves or there are conscious people controlling these states and every single person in them or acting on their behalf.















  • Its for the same reason most manga is set in a highschool (in no particular order):

    1: It is a crutch to supplant lazy writing about what characters do the rest of the time. What do these people do when they’re not in an action shot? Class! How do these people make a living? They don’t (usually)! Don’t even need to think about it. What kind of experiences do they have that might influence decisions? Stuff from school! What clothes do they wear? Uniforms!

    2: It is a very marketable setting. Everyone (mostly) can relate to going to highschool, the same can not be said for university or any other path after that. It allows you to have a lot of young people as characters (even young adults don’t feel too far removed) (also epsteingelion ) which are good for sales.

    3: Pursuing dreams like major league sports after you’re of age is broadly discouraged if you’re not literally the best. This one is a bit harder to substantiate because I’m not from Japan, but when I went to study my non-stem major I got weird looks, I can’t imagine what it would’ve been like to pursue mostly sports.





  • In one word, stubborn. The officers I saw ranged from assholes (who salutes in the field?) to normal nerds with a history degree. The enlisted was really diverse, it ranged from frat bro types, wanna-be the bad guy from avatar 2 types, guys waiting for their contracts to end, guys who joined for their greencard which I think is particularly fucked up systemically, and a couple of nerds sprinkled in too. The officers didn’t really interact much with the troops off duty which was a bit strange for me, usually where I’m from while they still have separate messes it wouldn’t be unusual for an officer to be invited in after an exercise by their subordinates.