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I agree, it was totally reasonable and worth it.

• _heimdall 3y ago
  Oh I didn't meant to imply that I personally see the nukes as having been reasonable or worth it. Frankly, I don't know how one could ever make the decision that killing 100,000 is "worth it" and I hope I never have to. Personally I think we should never have tried to invent the nuclear bomb to begin with, avoiding the decision entirely. I understand the whole "but then the enemy would have it first" argument, I just don't buy it. Sure, maybe the "enemy" would go on to invent it but that's a burden they'll have to bear. Sometimes standing on principle includes dying on principle, we seem to have lost the importance of all that along the way. I chalk that up to the increase rate of invention making it too scary to take a step back, even for a moment, to decide whether we should do something that we know we can do.