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Originally Posted by Lathdrinor
Western cultures are more based on guilt, probably in no small part due to the Christian influence. If you believe that "God sees all," then there's no point to hiding misdeeds. Either you believe that what you did was right and stick by it, or you don't and confess to it. The Nazis believed in their righteousness and during the Nuremberg trials, some of them laughed in the face of their prosecutors. The rest of Germany, those who saw the facts of what the Nazis did, spoke out and apologized.
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Are you sure? When the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there wasn't much guilt. Even now, many Americans believed it was necessary under the mask of "justice", claiming that it was the two atomic bombs that ended the war, even though it was more of a scientific test using living human beings as test subjects and also as a threat to their superpower arch-enemy, the USSR.