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Worse than was reported. Skameful barbarity.
Debate Score:11
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Why were the Japanese so cruel to POWs during WW2?

There are many confirmed reports of allied prisoners being bayoneted to death if they weakened and fell by the roadside during the **death march** after the fall of Singapore.
As prisoners were given less food than was necessary to keep them alive many died enduring the agonies of starvation and brutality by the sadistic guards. 

Worse than was reported.

Side Score: 7
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Skameful barbarity.

Side Score: 4
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Why were the Japanese so cruel to POWs during WW2

Hello M:

Cruel according to Western values.. However, according to Bushido, which is the way of the Samurai, they weren't cruel at all..

But, we defeated them, and they've adopted Western ways.

excon

Side: Worse than was reported.
Mongele(643) Disputed
1 point

If you could read you would know that the western ways to which you made reference were as equally as barbaric as the over romanticized notion of, the way of the Samurai until relatively recently.

Yes, the Japanese were defeated thanks to the brilliance of the U.S., military commanders and its fighting men and women.

People like you contributed zilch to that and all subsequent conflicts.

So don't take any credit by saying ''we defeated them''.

Side: Skameful barbarity.
2 points

Fascism erodes empathy and leads you to dehumanize anyone who's not in the IN group.

Side: Worse than was reported.
1 point

The Germans were also very savage but by all accounts the cold blooded barbarity of the Japanese surpassed even the sadistic cruelty of the Nazis.

Does this inhumanity form a congenital part of the Japanese character which still exists to this day?

Side: Worse than was reported.
excon(18261) Disputed
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Does this inhumanity form a congenital part of the Japanese character which still exists to this day?

Hello Antrim:

Being good warriors doesn't connote any congenital abnormality to me.. But, of course, I come from a long line of victorious warriors..

excon

Side: Skameful barbarity.
Mongele(643) Disputed
1 point

You come across to me as a low down yellow-bellied coward who got caught while engaged in criminality and sent to clink.

The only warriors you have ever seen is on Children's Television Channels.

Who do you think you're kidding you piece of festering, black enameled shit?

Side: Worse than was reported.
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In contrast, first hand accounts suggest that the allies treated their POWs with a degree of humanity which seemed to be totally missing from the Japanese psyche'.

Side: Skameful barbarity.