Seppuku (Japanese: 切腹, "cutting the belly") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.
Seppuku is also known as hara-kiri (腹切り, "belly-cutting") and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, hara-kiri is a colloquialism, seppuku being the more formal term. Samurai (and modern adherents of bushido) would use seppuku, whereas ordinary Japanese (who in feudal times as well as today looked askance at the practice) would use hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is the more common term in English, where it is often mistakenly rendered "hari-kari."
The practice of committing seppuku at the death of one's master is known as oibara (追腹 or 追い腹); the ritual is similar.
Seppuku was a key part of bushido, the code of the samurai warriors; it was used by warriors to avoid falling into enemy hands, and to attenuate shame. Samurai could also be ordered by their daimyo (feudal lords) to commit seppuku. Later, disgraced warriors were sometimes allowed to commit seppuku rather than be executed in the normal manner. Since the main point of the act was to restore or protect one's honor as a warrior, those who did not belong to the samurai caste were never ordered or expected to commit seppuku. Samurai women could only commit the act with permission.
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uni, you have a one track mind that jumped the track and is stranded, sitting there watching the world go by.
Have you ever been in any situation that demanded thinking and making a decision?
It isn't "cut and run" to recognize you took the wron turn and need to go find your way back to the highway. Refusing to admit you are on a one way street to nowhere isn't exactly bright.
It is more than just a tad on the dumbass side to keep insistiong you can get to the other side of the river by driving across a bridge that doesn't exists.
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I saw on ABC news where they has secretely filmed recruiters teaching kids how to beat the drug test, but I think they still require at least a semblance of thinking.
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