Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170331010234/@comment-734582-20170503080517

Ancladar wrote: Could you imagine being related to the people who died in the war, and learning that some of the main people were free simply because they either had a change of heart or helped fight the final boss. That may clear a few charges away, but their research is a big part of how edo-tensei came about and even before that Orichimaru was kidnapping and experimenting on people. Then answer me this question: Why is it that Nazi Germany -to this day- is blamed for countless deaths when the US is the only nation in the world to nuke another, or why Imperial Japan does not get the same bad rep as the Nazi's despite themselves murdering millions.

Post WW2, the global focus was on rebuilding rather than eradicating every last person. Many many people who worked directly or indirectly for the Nazi's walked away scott free. Oppenheimer was a nazi scientist who built the V2 rockets that rained down on London yet America hired him to build the Saturn rockets.

Point is, this has happened before in real life and it's happened often.

(Also there's a name for what you describe: Values dissonance. Apparently Japan is more karma-oriented than the West)