What if...
For example, if an American soldier who has traveled back in time since the war era killed an ordinary person who cosplayed as a Japanese soldier, can that American soldier be blamed?
For example, if an American soldier who has traveled back in time since the war era killed an ordinary person who cosplayed as a Japanese soldier, can that American soldier be blamed?
Good morning.
If it were me, I would run away from any position. I'll run away anyway. really.
The reason is pretty simple: I'm afraid of hurting people and getting hurt.
So, actually, I'm quite withdrawn, and since I'm an underground person, I look around the internet like this, check points of contact with society, and adjust myself.
It must be difficult for you to live in the world, but I'm certainly envious that you have a point of contact with society right now.
This is because having relationships with others usually means hurting and being hurt.
“If you have good business relationships, you should behave in any way.” “Shoisho” (Shinran Shonin)
While holding such a troublesome “blade” deep in my heart, how will I live today and tomorrow when I am dangerous?
The easiest and easiest path for the time being, which has been derived through my experiences, is to run away for the time being. It takes courage to run away, but surprisingly, it becomes “addictive” when you put it into action.
If they say they don't have the courage to run away, well, try running away from running away. because it's scary.
I read it.
It's a crime for people to despise others, isn't it?
Whether it's normal or wartime, it won't change.
There is no change that the act of a living person taking the life they have been given is a crime no matter what circumstances.
In terms of Buddhism, this would be breaking the commandment of immortality.
There is no change that any kind of life is precious.
Whether you are an American, an Islamic person, or a Jew, that life is precious to you or me.
So many lives have been taken by the war.
I and I want to learn about that from human history up until now, and try not to do such foolish acts to people.
Please continue to think carefully about that from now on.
Hello.
First, if you go back in time, the American soldier will look at the surrounding situation and notice that they have “slipped back in time.” If you look at cosplay in Japanese military uniforms, I think they'll try to see how things are going.
If I hadn't noticed it, I wonder if they would watch a Japanese military uniform cosplay and try to kill them right away? I think they'll hide because they think they'll be taken prisoner.
Even if those American soldiers try to attack, I think people in Japanese military uniforms cosplay will show that they have no intention of fighting. The American soldier would think he had surrendered and wouldn't kill him.
Even so, if you kill them, well, if you kill something that has no intention of fighting, you can be blamed even with the ethics of the time, right? And I think they will be judged by current law. Not long ago, there was an incident where residents of welfare facilities for people with disabilities were killed in Sagamihara. The culprit says “Hitler's ideas have come down,” but the current Japanese laws still apply.
In Buddhism, the anguish of anger is thought to be the cause of worry and suffering.
People who get angry at that American soldier suffer and are stressed by that anger themselves.
Therefore, in Buddhism, it is better not to get angry and be kind to sinners and evil people.
The Buddha has mercy on any villain.
As a trick to caring for bad people, I think it is effective to imagine the background of that person not having committed a crime, and think from the other person's point of view that would have happened if you were in the same environment as that person and had only the same abilities.
Of course, when the family of the victim who was killed blames the American soldier, we should also imagine the position of the bereaved family who is blaming them, and direct mercy towards them as well.
The Buddha called Amitabha in the sutras is a Buddha who saves any kind of villain.
We don't have the power to save like the Buddha, and our compassion isn't perfect.
Even so, if you sympathize with the Buddha's great mercy, saying, “It would be nice if everyone was saved,” the stress of anger in everyday life will be reduced considerably.