... for their Emperor. As Leon V. Sigal states, " one point was clear to senior [United States] officials, regardless of where they stood on war termination the critical condition for Japanese surrender was the assurance that the throne would be preserved" (Alperovitz 31). It turns out that the unconditional ... surrender clause of the peace agreement was the major factor that hindered Japanese surrender at this point in the war. According to the surrender agreement, "the authority that deceived the people into embarking on world conquest must be eliminated from Japan" (Long). To ... place. ...

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... for their inadequacies. Furthermore, philosophers such as Socrates and Vonnegut have stressed that responsibility for one's actions is the first step toward understanding why things are the way they are (i.e. war, hunger, injustice, etc.) As Socrates states, "Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be ... could please all of the gods, but more importantly, Socrates would advocate that it is ludicrous to act in a mechanical way merely to please beings which are at constant war with each other. Ultimatel...

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