05-06-2020, 01:25 PM
(05-05-2020, 11:38 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: David is wrong because Crisis wars are not driven by rationality in the first place.
It was crazy for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor, and even the Admiral carrying out the attack knew that and said so at the time. It still happened. Crisis wars are driven by irrational actions during irrational Crisis periods.
If you are sincerely racist, are you being irrational? If Hitler sincerely wanted living space for his super race and believed the Jews are a real threat, is he irrational for holding these beliefs or rational for acting on them?
If the Japanese took the unraveling character of America as soft and selfish to always be America's character, is that irrational? Granted, as America was in a Crisis configuration just then, thus it was a mistake big time, and Admiral Yamaguchi knew America better. Still, was it irrational or a big mistake?
Were each alliance made by the European powers before the Great War sensible, or looking at the net result are you justified in saying all of them together put the continent on a hair trigger? The leaders of the time should have known better?
I suspect the answers would say more about the definition of ‘irrational’ than anything else, but the questions seem worth asking.
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