Originally Posted by
darb72
It is my contention that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were strategic military targets that Japan willingly put behind civilian shields. There were something like 50,000 troops stationed at Hiroshima at the time the bomb was dropped. Nagasaki was the main center for Japan's construction of war materials including ships and guns. Both cities were warned days in advance that a terrible bomb was coming.
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Even worse than kicking His favorite creation out of paradise, forcing them to live in a fallen state simply for eating a piece of fruit? Christ was and is the root of salvation.
And you pretend that allowing millions of other children to die violently gives you a place of moral superiority. It doesn't. You make a choice just like I do. Only difference is you made yours to keep a clear conscience no matter the cost. I'd make the hard choice and live with the guilt.
So Israel should not be firing back at Hamas terrorists who are hiding behind children while firing rockets at children in Israel? Again your moral absolutism is going to get kids killed.
I noticed you've completely ignored my question about blowing up 10 kids in a bus to save 100 kids in a school. 7 million people, conservative estimate, would have died, including well over a million innocent women and children, if we don't drop those bombs. Russia and China were coming in through the north and China was gonna straight fuck shit up. 3.5 million Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese; 350,000 at the Nanking Massacre. There are literally dozens of examples of Japan using Chinese, and other nationalities, civilians in concentration camps for horrific experiments.
So yes, making terrible decisions that will save countless others lives is sometimes necessary.
Yeah... about that...
The deaths of 200,000 vs. the deaths of 7,000,000 is an easily defensible position to anybody not clinging to a farcical sense of moral superiority. I'd hate myself for pulling the trigger, but I'd do it every single time.