• ClericalBlunt@lemm.eeEnglish
    53·
    1 year ago

    Blowing up two cities to save a theoretical number of people is evil. There is no excuse for the atomic bombing of Japan.

    • neanderthal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      I don’t like the phrase “no excuse”. I’m a particularist. E.g. There is no excuse for shooting someone. Shooting a person actively shooting up an elementary school is fine in my book.

      • ClericalBlunt@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        I’m not saying there is no excuse to ever bomb someone. I’m saying there is no excuse for this specific bombing. The bombs killed between 150,000 to 220,000 people, mostly civilians.

        • neanderthal@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          You may be right in that using nukes was the wrong call. IMO, it seems like it was the best of bad options.

          Saying there is no excuse and you disagree with something are two different things. The phrase “no excuse” is saying you think it is objectively wrong in a way that sounds like it isn’t just your opinion. I don’t think you mean it that way, I’m just explaining why I really don’t like that phrase.

          As bad as the nukes were, the conventional bombing of Tokyo was probably worse. Over 100k civilians were killed with 1,000,000+ left homeless.