sicetaitsimple wrote:By dint of you racking up each other, we will end up believing that Nazi Germany and Japan were really victims .....
We happily ignore the mass rapes perpetrated during the allied offensive, "the good guys" are above all biological structures subject to determinisms that could lead them to the worst. And then Russia, which had to pay the heaviest tribes to the second world war, was it not very quickly designated as the new enemy to fight?
The historical forces that pushed people to extremism like Japanese nationalism or German Nazism must be explained not just to be condemned. It's the role of science, if not just to condemn the enemy as a monster can then justify all possible horrors against him,which necessarily includes a majority of civilians.
As explained elsewhere human behavior unfolds within a given architecture, as an example Daesh did not appear ex nihiloBut more than a duty of memory, it is a duty to understand the underlying mechanisms of the history that is necessary on pain of being condemned to relive the horror cyclically.