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A quotation from Orwell

I believe that it is better even from the point of view of survival to fight and be conquered than to surrender without fighting.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 6, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)

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David W. Jones

I think one of the cultural conflicts between the US and Japanese militaries during World War 2 was that the Japanese military believed that surrending was dishonorable while the US military saw it as surviving. So when US soldiers surrendered, they were dishonoring themselves in Japanese eyes, making themselves inferior, and thus deserving of mistreatment.
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