Yet you took the effort to write a response with no prompting...
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Refusing to opine is a legitimate response.
Yes, but publicly stating so on an anonymous forum where no one asked or cared is just a passive aggressive form of stating an opinion.
I don't understand how you're reading my comment as passive-aggressive. Yes, I stated an opinion, but I thought it was straightforward and direct: that it's not my place to judge Japan's cultural values as an outsider. Do you think that the only acceptable opinion in a case like this is to take a side?