A cultural observation: it's fascinating that it's not only OK but actually kinda cool to have a wood etching of a fictional character who killed (presumably) millions of fictional people. But put up a wood carving of a real human that killed hundreds or thousands of real people, and no bueno. I wonder why one is OK and the other is not, and I doubt it's because one had a total change of heart in the last moments of his life and threw the emperor in the fire-tube (who, ironically, they bring back to life anyway). Cultural rules are sometimes a bit arbitrary.
A cultural observation: it's fascinating that it's not only OK but actually kinda cool to have a wood etching of a fictional character who killed (presumably) millions of fictional people. But put up a wood carving of a real human that killed hundreds or thousands of real people, and no bueno. I wonder why one is OK and the other is not, and I doubt it's because one had a total change of heart in the last moments of his life and threw the emperor in the fire-tube (who, ironically, they bring back to life anyway). Cultural rules are sometimes a bit arbitrary.
EDIT: oh shoot, I totally forgot about American colonialism. Maybe we DO put up wood carvings of real people who killed real people? 🤷♀️
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EDIT: oh shoot, I totally forgot about American colonialism. Maybe we DO put up wood carvings of real people who killed real people? 🤷♀️
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