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I'm not judging the persons who made the decision. However, I do judge the people who justify such war crimes today. There are people who to this day say that
by thanksgiving 9y ago
I'm not judging the persons who made the decision. However, I do judge the people who justify such war crimes today.
There are people who to this day say that using the nukes was the right decision meaning that they would do it again given the opportunity. That to me is the tragedy.
If we believe this, we can no longer support non proliferation. In fact, we must actively support all nations to develop and stand by these weapons in such a way that they are capable of second strike. The world is worse off as a result.
I'm not saying whether Truman was a bad guy. He likely wasn't. However, we have the benefit of hindsight. We should know better than to say it was the right call.
"Right or wrong, my country" is stupid. Patriotism does not mean we support all the stupidity done in the name of my country.
- valuearb 9y agoYou believe killing 100,000 with nuclear weapons is not justified if it's saving millions that would die in a conventional attack?
- thanksgiving 9y agoThat is the wrong question. Saving millions of lives to thrust billions into the era of the atom bomb. Now don't you tell me that Russia would have done it anyway because of course but then we could blame Russia for it. We don't counter and say well someone would have come up with Bohr Model if Bohr wasn't born so why do we insist that Russia would have used the first atom bomb if we had not?
- valuearb 9y agoHmm, the question was never who thrust us into the atomic age, it was whether you'd allow millions of people to die (mostly Japanese) in order not to use the bomb?
- thanksgiving 9y agoThat question is scary because it leaves the option of us using a nuke again in the future on civilians. The answer is no. I would never use strategic nukes on civilian population centers.