Thanks for the thoughtful response. I’m more wondering aloud whether the option to surrender is just tacitly always on the table during war. If the allies had

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I’m more wondering aloud whether the option to surrender is just tacitly always on the table during war. If the allies had said ‘we will firebomb Hiroshima unless you surrender’ it might almost seem like a meaningless endeavor since it’s hard to draw the line when you should alert your enemy of your next military action since ‘surrender’ is (probably) always tacitly assumed an option. In this sense, giving an enemy an option to surrender (again) seems moot on the moral framework of ‘we are at war and will continue to bomb until the enemy officially surrenders, since we both know it is always an option.’