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I'm all for parables that shed light on complicated situations, but isn't that one kind of sweeping everything that made it a difficult decision under the rug?
by savanaly 11y ago
I'm all for parables that shed light on complicated situations, but isn't that one kind of sweeping everything that made it a difficult decision under the rug? When it comes to the decision of whether to drop the bomb there is like horrendous death any which way you go, but with killing a songbird as opposed to waiting it is more one sided.
- xigency 11y agoHm, I'm not sure. It's hard to tell the scale of something, even something small. I lived in Japan for six months where I stayed in Aizu, which is in Fukushima, and it was directly after the disaster (Although I was there for different reasons). The bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were something I learned about when I was young because my grandfather was on the USS South Dakota, a battleship that fought in the Pacific theater. Obviously this has sort of shaped my views. I later looked at which cities were bombed by my grandfather's ship and met some people whose relatives also fought in World War II, so that gave me a bit more perspective, but it's still something that is very hard to judge. In looking at raw destruction, the Dresden firebombing was more destructive and more lethal. One thing that differentiates this attack was that it was mainly aimed at civilians.