No don't you see, subjecting slave states to cruel and unjust punishments is ok because reasons, but nuking the shit out of the Japanese for bringing it upon themselves is evil because it's not nice to harm/kill people who would totally do it to you if they could.
Yes, it's moral to subjugate and torture your brother states/citizens for crimes that only a small percentage committed, but it's mean to do the same to the Japanese, well known for the women to strap explosives to their swaddled babies to try and kill US soldiers who weren't even harming them.
Sherman went scorched earth, raped the women, and used the captured Southern slaves as Union war materiel.
For a war fought on muh slavery and to preserve the Union, no one seemed to have told the Union troops.
No don't you see, subjecting slave states to cruel and unjust punishments is ok because reasons, but nuking the shit out of the Japanese for bringing it upon themselves is evil because it's not nice to harm/kill people who would totally do it to you if they could.
Yes, it's moral to subjugate and torture your brother states/citizens for crimes that only a small percentage committed, but it's mean to do the same to the Japanese, well known for the women to strap explosives to their swaddled babies to try and kill US soldiers who weren't even harming them.