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well, i must say, to build toughness and iron will is ok, but this hero worship in the face of death and body culture appears a bit gay

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Mishima himself had an answer for you: "The cynicism that regards all hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority. Invariably, it is the man who believes himself to be physically lacking in heroic attributes who speaks mockingly of the hero”

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