2011-07-15, 05:48 PM
ShinkuDragon Wrote:A ninja (忍者?) or shinobi (忍び?) was a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war.
They travelled in disguise to other territories to judge the situation of the enemy, they would inveigle their way into the midst of the enemy to discover gaps, and enter enemy castles to set them on fire, and carried out assassinations, arriving in secret
I don't understand. Are you insisting that quiet stealthy murder and theft on contract with people who would both kill and die for the insistance that they were not contractually involved is something I should admire? I'm not saying they aren't capable. They clearly are. I'm saying it has a direct and documented history of causing and enabling corruption. Yes, in Japan. And the relevant kind of secrecy has nothing to do with ninjas. It's about relations between people in day to day living. That hasn't generally involved secretly contracted killers on the regular. Especially not lately.