Question
All great nations inevitably end up committing suicide. Do you agree and why?
Answer
Disagree for the following reasonsbrbr. A nation is a group of people, and mass suicide is not so common.br. Cultural artefacts that define a nation can live long after all members of the nation have disappeared.br. Suicide implies some sort of decision to die, whatever the state of mind. Blundering into something, or getting killed by something stronger than you isnt the same as commiting suicide. The Romans getting trounced by the Huns wasnt suicide, the Ming dynasty being subjugated by the West, then torn apart from beneath wasnt suicide. It may have amounted to suicide for these entities to get lazy and careless enough to fall apart, but it wasnt actually suicide.br. Suicide is to kill oneself selbstmord, jisatsu. As a nation is a multiple entity, everyone who made it up would have to be working to dissolve it, and that doesnt happen often. brbrThings just decline, thats it. Nothing ever can continue strengthening forever. Perhaps what makes us great will make us weak? and therefore leads us to be conquered. You could try to argue that greatness itself is a form of suicide... but thats stretching definitions and minds a wee bit too much... Hmm... I think I penned an Oasis lyric there... but on which line?
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