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Originally Posted by Onward Allusion
Ancestor Worship as their "religion"
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I don't see why religion was in quotation marks. While many are Shinto, they don't really consider it religious, while still participating in it. Buddhism is prominent, and as the key to Happiness in Buddhism is helping those around you, making them happy and removing anger, desire for something, and greed. So yes, their reasons for not looting may be religious, but I don't think kinship applies here. Many other countries are more than okay with looting from people their own religion and/or race.
What it comes down to is ones own moral code. Any justification is simply for their own sake, not ours.