Originally Posted by
unsay_ngalan_nimo
lol nibasa ko ana... ikaw tingali wala nibasa.. seppuku as a capital punishment... its a judicial order... when a samurai is found to be gulity of corruption...
"If condemned to death, it was held to be a privilege to execute the sentence on one's own body rather than to be a disgrace and die at the hands of the public headsman."
You know what you and FranZeno have in common? When you read text, you read it SELECTIVELY kay klaro kaayo na may galit kayo or some kind of bias AGAINST Angelo Reyes, so the idea of him TRYING to die with honor ay hindi nyo kaya i-accept or kayang lunukin.
Now if you just keep an open mind, and also stick to the text of the article, it's plain to see that no matter what charges are filed against him, in his OWN MIND, he just wanted an honorable exit out of the situation. Some of you might ask "Eh if seppuku iyang gusto buhaton, gnanong pusil man iyang gigamit? Well think for a moment--if he actually committed REAL seppuku eh baka pagtawanan lang siya ng mga tao, kasi ba't naman nya gagawin yon eh hindi naman siya Japanese...so he decided to do it in a method that would still inflict a mortal wound, yet still "appear" to be an honorable military-esque death, at least in his mind.
In the military mind, Seppuku is a
personal thing. It's an
option that one can choose. Nobody chooses seppuku for you--it's either you want to do it, or not.
-RODION