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INTEREST: Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara Projected to Win 4th Term

i am going to hell for this but radiation/kemo fights and helps cure cancer or lessen it.

It shouldn't have been built there. You lost this argument, because the tsunami occurred there and created a catastrophe. So obviously a mistake was made. If it has to be on a coast line, put it on one that isn't directly next to a fault line. The fact people would defend this just amazes me, and the only defense is to start calling people hippies for something that went horrendously wrong. You may as well be arguing in favor of the citizens of Pompei to build their city next to the volano.

Ghidra999 wrote:

It shouldn't have been built there. You lost this argument, because the tsunami occurred there and created a catastrophe. So obviously a mistake was made. If it has to be on a coast line, put it on one that isn't directly next to a fault line. The fact people would defend this just amazes me, and the only defense is to start calling people hippies for something that went horrendously wrong. You may as well be arguing in favor of the citizens of Pompei to build their city next to the volano.

people complain after the fact is just stupid and no he didn't lose the argument. Just like most Americans who only complain after something happen. Example, like oil spill in the gulf. We need to stop complain about the spill and say how bad the design was.

build a city in New Orleans is a bad idea. Rebuild New Orleans is another bad idea. You will see more people die because of building a city in New Orleans than building nuclear plants in Tokyo.

Look at the map, there are nuclear plants that are not safe in US and around the world too. Life is all about risk.

enurtsol wrote:

The Japanese favor authority, going back thru their history. Other (democratic) countries like that include Russia. If you have the power of authority, you're already ahead of the other candidates.

That is a fallacious statement. Democracy as a form of government has been very rare through humankind story and has never been practiced like in the late 20th century (where women and minorities had a right to vote). So any country with a history longer than two hundred years will not have had "anti-democratic" governments, yet I fail to see that as a cultural thing since back then most people did not had the chance to choose.

What's fallacious? This is not about democracy. Granted, Russia has only had 2 decades of democracy, while Japan has 60 years, but this is about authority, not democracy.

enurtsol wrote:

What's fallacious? This is not about democracy. Granted, Russia has only had 2 decades of democracy, while Japan has 60 years, but this is about authority, not democracy.

You should have set a time frame for your statement :-p Saying it is about authority is like saying there is a fire without pointint the source of it. So in the 1930s Germany was attracted to autoritative figures, same thing happened in Venezuela ten years ago and it is happening ATM in Tokyo, but I bet the reason behind that choice is quite different in the three scenarios.

Just because they're impeccably polite to a foreigner, say, doesn't mean that they aren't extreme jingoists who reflect that at the polls.

If it has to be on a coast line, put it on one that isn't directly next to a fault line.

You should have set a time frame for your statement :-p Saying it is about authority is like saying there is a fire without pointint the source of it. So in the 1930s Germany was attracted to autoritative figures, same thing happened in Venezuela ten years ago and it is happening ATM in Tokyo, but I bet the reason behind that choice is quite different in the three scenarios.

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Just because they're impeccably polite to a foreigner, say, doesn't mean that they aren't extreme jingoists who reflect that at the polls.

FFS, man, do you not get that this is not an ordinary situation, and that the average Japanese person on the street over there has no time for making pointless political statements?

mangamuscle wrote:

You should have set a time frame for your statement :-p Saying it is about authority is like saying there is a fire without pointint the source of it. So in the 1930s Germany was attracted to autoritative figures, same thing happened in Venezuela ten years ago and it is happening ATM in Tokyo, but I bet the reason behind that choice is quite different in the three scenarios.

I call Godwin's Law.

Ghidra999 wrote:

If it has to be on a coast line, put it on one that isn't directly next to a fault line.

That's impossible. The entire coastline of Japan was created by fault lines.

Sunday Silence wrote:

mangamuscle wrote: You should have set a time frame for your statement :-p Saying it is about authority is like saying there is a fire without pointint the source of it. So in the 1930s Germany was attracted to autoritative figures, same thing happened in Venezuela ten years ago and it is happening ATM in Tokyo, but I bet the reason behind that choice is quite different in the three scenarios. I call Godwin's Law.

"Godwin's law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Hitler or Nazis or their actions. The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering ... discussion of other totalitarian regimes"

Sorry, better luck next time.

its pretty simple. because majority of tokyo thinks like him.