
Originally Posted by
Fisherking
That is a very nice idea but do you understand the difference between your moral outrage and historical context?
It is an interesting paradox that the easier it is to kill people the less moral be becomes.
The bombs were dropped to end a very vicious conflict in which millions had died and millions more expected to die.
While the citizens of the two cities may have been guiltless, the world held a sense of National Guilt with regard to the crimes of Japan.
You cannot measure it in the light of hindsight and postwar morality. It was a product of the times.
Even today we cannot prevent atrocities and the killing of civilians.
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