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You gotta say "some of the worst" or you fail on a technicality right out of the gate. Humanity has been fighting to produce the worst war crimes since ever and
by actionfromafar 3y ago
You gotta say "some of the worst" or you fail on a technicality right out of the gate. Humanity has been fighting to produce the worst war crimes since ever and displays no particular signs to give it up any time soon.
- tonetegeatinst 3y agoThis exactly. I can agree that using those nukes was many questionable. Who can truly say if lives were saved from a land invasion. So much is classified and what ifs. But it is far from the worse war crime.....
- dTal 3y agoThey said "by far" the worst, which is pretty much opposite to your point. If we soften it down to "dropping nukes was pretty bad", it becomes a boring and uncontroversial comment with no punch, and we wouldn't have a huge pile-on of a comment chain discussing it.
- actionfromafar 3y agoEhm, yes? :) What you said.
- roenxi 3y agoI think the comment at the thread root is just wrong then (although the downvotes seem excessive). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_China alone seems to have a couple of worse crimes than the atomic bombs; the Chinese are an old civilisation with reasonable record keeping.