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The other being guilty does not acquit you from a crime. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were an act of genocide, there is nothing that makes this OK.

• tomohawk 8y ago
  They were stopped. The criminal activities ceased. Japan is a completely different country today. It's not the fault of the US that the government of Japan militarized their whole society and literally made the whole of the country a military target.
  • coldtea 8y ago
    Well, it's somebody's fault. Japan wanted to be left alone. Western powers took it to war to force it to their will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu#Foreign_frictions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu#Foreign_frictions
    • ThrowawayR2 8y ago
      > Japan wanted to be left alone. Yeah, left alone to create the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperit...). You're welcome to ask the various Asian nations of that region whether they thought that was a good thing but I doubt you'd like the response.
      • coldtea 8y ago
        That's after the West pushed it to break isolationism and taught it it had to be ruthless to be respected, not before. In other words, that's a century later...
        • ThrowawayR2 8y ago
          Ah, the classic "But he hit me first" argument[0]. Very persuasive. /s [0] Also known as the "two wrongs make a right" fallacy. See https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/177/Two-Wrongs-Make-a-Right https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
  • clarkmoody 8y ago
    > literally made the whole of the country a military target This is exactly the sort of collectivist thinking that makes it possible to have WWIII. When you can disregard fundamental human dignity based on the actions of a government, you've already lost.
• thomasfedb 8y ago
  That's a very absolute statement that will almost certainly break down under some real or conceivable hypothetical situation.