[Azimaith]

Actually thats not quite true, plenty of samurai were thugs, pillagers, and rapists who were only loyal to the comfort a master provided them. That kind of generalization doesn't really work. In fact there were plenty of cases of entire villages of innocents being destroyed by samurai not to mention there were also groups of Ronin samurai who became brigands, sometimes of course they became ronin by killing their previous master. They were as diverse a group as knights of the middle ages. During the warring states periods there were alot of disloyal samurai, I can tell you that.