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Today is the anniversary of one of the greatest crimes against humanity that was carried out against the civilian population against Japan by the US. The only country to date to use nuclear weapons (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Those certainly were appalling and destructive events. But why give them some special status over other bombing raids like the March 9 fire bombing of Tokyo, which also killed over 100,000 people in one night? Dropping 1 bomb vs. dropping 1,600 tons of conventional bombs in 3 hours?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Exactly you have to look at it objectively. It's like the trolley problem bomb 2 cities killing ~240k people almost instantly or continue fire bombing and launching a land invasion for another year or 2 potentially killing millions.

    Would I want to make that decision, fuck no.

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