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The act of soldiers hopped up on religion and hiropin (speed) means it is morally justified dropping an atomic bomb on a civilian city? To the extent possible,
by jbm 14y ago
The act of soldiers hopped up on religion and hiropin (speed) means it is morally justified dropping an atomic bomb on a civilian city?
To the extent possible, I will never do business with you or any company you are associated with. You sound like a horrible person.
- benjohnson 14y agoI would expect eradicating evil would normally be a violent endeavor.
- mpyne 14y agoSo if the pilot of the Enola Gay was hopped up on speed when he dropped the bomb, that would make it OK? Either way, inasmuch as it helped to shorten the war, prevent American invasion, and prevent Soviet invasion the atomic bombs actually probably saved Japanese lives overall (civilian and military both). Most notably, news of the second atomic bomb came while the Emperor Hirohito and his cabinet were meeting to discuss what to do about the first, and about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Even though they received the news of the second bombing earlier that day the cabinet still deadlocked 2-2 on the question of whether to surrender; it was Hirohito himself who had to decide that enough was enough. The Emperor would record his surrender announcement to be played back the next day... in the meantime elements of the Imperial Japanese Army decided to overthrow the government in order to prevent the surrender announcement from being broadcast. Two high-level officials were killed in the process, a senior Army general killed himself rather than stop the coup, and the bravery of some of the palace staff managed to keep the broadcast from falling into the hands of the conspirators. So I'm not sure we'll ever know exactly how much the atomic bomb weighed into that, but it certainly appears to have been more than zero, even though its destructive effect was not significantly more than what was already being experienced by other Japanese cities sustaining wave upon wave of conventional bombing (which relatively few people ever seem to complain about for some reason).
- derleth 14y agoThe prevention of the potential horrors of the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands justifies the nuclear bombs many times over.