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The difference is in targeting cities. Civilian targets. Let me remind you of the paragraph above: > Beyond that, there are moral questions about the use of nu
by yencabulator 1y ago
The difference is in targeting cities. Civilian targets. Let me remind you of the paragraph above:
> Beyond that, there are moral questions about the use of nuclear weapons. I know people who think it would have been more moral to force a Japanese surrender via many Japanese and American soldiers to die during an invasion of Japan, than for the US to kill civilians with nuclear weapons. [...]
- ericmay 1y agoA civilian is just a soldier who hasn’t put on a uniform in this scenario, and a soldier is just a civilian who has put on a uniform. You’re making a meaningless distinction in this context. There isn’t some sort of magic status that changes here - the same Japanese civilians were working at shipyards and ordinance factories to build weapons to kill American soldiers - you think we shouldn’t bomb those factories because we would kill Japanese civilians building weapons to kill American soldiers and that’s ok because the Americans were wearing a costume and we call them “military personnel”? Nuts!
- yencabulator 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_...
- ericmay 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes?wprov=sfti...
- yencabulator 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#World...
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- ericmay 1y agoWhat does this have to do with Japanese war crimes and violations of the conventions you linked?
- yencabulator 1y agoIf I follow your logic, you believe that other countries should have nuked a couple of major US cities. I think that's.. not a great way to go.
- ericmay 1y agoThat’s a strawman
- whoknowsidont 1y agoPlease define a strawman, in your own words. Because I don't think anyone would remotely qualify what OP said as a strawman.
- rstupek 1y agoWe killed almost as many civilians when we firebombed Tokyo. Is the use of the atomic bomb somehow different in your mind?
- yencabulator 1y agoI can think of three things off the top of my head, the scale enabled by them, the timeline of the deaths, and the residual effects.