Is there a fallacy related to crying fallacious argument when there isn&#x27;t one? If so, I suppose I should pull that card right now...<p>It&#x27;s hardly jealousy. And you&#x27;re arguing against claims I didn&#x27;t make - I never said a civil war changes civilization in and of itself. But we&#x27;re talking about a period where the way the country had been ruled for hundred of years completely changed, with huge amounts of turmoil, lots of bloodshed, and came out on the other site vastly changed. To try to compare it to the US Civil War, where in comparison things were static (As far as the governance of any nation remains static) when it comes government reform, is silly. The US punished the South, but the federal government behaved much as it had before.<p>In comparison, the Meiji restoration ended centuries of feudal society.