Samurai?

[Crimson Khan]

Being born into a Samurai family might give you the title of Samurai honorary maybe, I don't know, sort of like how you can still be knighted by the queen in England, but being knighted in modern England doesn't mean you are a real knight in the old-fashioned sense.

And there are plenty of warriors these days that do embody great values. Observe the U.S. Army Special Forces for instance (SF is one of the U.S. Spec Ops, others are Navy SEALs, Air Force Pararescue, etc...), their motto is, "De Oppresso Liber" which is Latin for "To Free the Oppressed."

They are like a modern version of the ninja, but they use rifles and rucksacks and make friends with the local peoples usually.

wow
thats dead wrong in so many ways
i agree with the first paragraph
the second, stuff ther motto, semper fi, de oppresso liber, all that is bull
they serve their commanding officer, who serves his commanding officer until you hit the president
alot of things american forces do are strictly and obviously against "freeing the oppressed" like helping indonesia oppress the acehnese and east timor
now im not saying american soldiers are bad, im not saying they're good
each is to his own, but they follow orders or are kicked out

also
a ninja and a samurai are antonymous
the ninja were assasins who used secrecy and surprise and killed samurai by any means
the samurai were overly honorable and would, like todays yakuza, cut off a finger or in fact take their own life for ther boss

anyways
peace.

[Juicefree]

Maybe start with a definition of what a Samurai means and work from there.

So ;

" ...In the former feudal system of Japan, the class or a member
of the class, of military retainers of the daimios,
constituting the gentry or lesser nobility. They possessed
power of life and death over the commoners, and wore two
swords as their distinguishing mark. Their special rights and
privileges were abolished with the fall of feudalism in 1871.

...".

(the on-line dictionary spelling, not mine).

So technically speaking there are no samurai today.

But if you were maybe arguing that the spirit of the samurai exists today, well that's a different matter ....