Let's not talk about the hypothetical about Japan being on the verge of collapse and ready to surrender. Let's also not bring up the uncannily Christian nature of these targets, or even any other "conspiracy theory" relating to why the bombs dropped. Let's even grant that dropping the bombs could be seen as a legitimate strategic decision that ended up saving more lives overall. The positive decision to use nukes to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians to convince a foreign government to capitulate absolutely is definitionally evil according to any moral framework that isn't pitiless utilitarianism. You could argue that it was a necessary evil, perhaps, but this idea that it was a moral good to perform such an act is the absolute peak of hubris and I am completely unsurprised to see ol chickenhawk benji here saying it without any reservation.
Most people don't know, either, that the fire bombing raids on Japan killed far more civilians than the nuke drops. Back then, most homes in Japan were wooden. The fire bombing raids caused massive firestorms, killing hundreds of thousands.
Let's not talk about the hypothetical about Japan being on the verge of collapse and ready to surrender. Let's also not bring up the uncannily Christian nature of these targets, or even any other "conspiracy theory" relating to why the bombs dropped. Let's even grant that dropping the bombs could be seen as a legitimate strategic decision that ended up saving more lives overall. The positive decision to use nukes to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians to convince a foreign government to capitulate absolutely is definitionally evil according to any moral framework that isn't pitiless utilitarianism. You could argue that it was a necessary evil, perhaps, but this idea that it was a moral good to perform such an act is the absolute peak of hubris and I am completely unsurprised to see ol chickenhawk benji here saying it without any reservation.
Most people don't know, either, that the fire bombing raids on Japan killed far more civilians than the nuke drops. Back then, most homes in Japan were wooden. The fire bombing raids caused massive firestorms, killing hundreds of thousands.
We're talking about the nukes specifically, but yes I agree that the firebombing of both Japan and Germany were horrific.
Japan and Germany fucked around, Japan and Germany found out.