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It sounds like the point you're making is that Japan's brutality towards Korea justifies the bombings. Without arguing whether or not the bombing was justified,
by rybosome 11y ago
It sounds like the point you're making is that Japan's brutality towards Korea justifies the bombings. Without arguing whether or not the bombing was justified, surely we can feel empathy for the HUMAN BEINGS injured or killed, particularly given that many of them had nothing to do with the war and merely had the bad luck of being born into that city and country at that time? This does not mitigate or excuse the violence inflicted by the Japanese, but merely acknowledges the value of human life.
Our history is full of brutality; to trot out a well-worn Gandhi quote, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
- honest_joe 11y agoThere surely were innocent people but most of them were fanatics. Or have not you heard about US para-troopers that got killed by your "innocent" civilians ? Japan and Germany greatly benefitted from the war. Entire enterprises,zaibatsus were built by the work of slaves. And the whole world admires the germans and the japanese and forgets the work of millions who had to die. And americans are the ones to blame that they allowed these countries to exist after WW2 in order to have colonies against USSR. I am not saying kill them all but these countries should not have existed anymore.