Yep. There's actually a long historical debate, and anyone who thinks that "well it's wrong" is the end of the discussion is historically ignorant at best, and a knee-jerk nazi retard at worst.

Ben is right here. "just asking questions" doesn't mean you actually understand the history of it, or have read books about it.

The bombing was not a moral good by any means, but neither were the fire bombing campaigns we carried out. War is always about the lesser of two evils when it comes to bombs, and in this case I at least believe (because this isn't a black and white absolute) the first bomb was justified to avoid causing millions more needless deaths. The second one is a bit trickier, but it's been a long time since I've read up on the exact time line of how the japan government reacted, so I can't be more specific about why right now. The Japanese tended to fight back to the death, because of propaganda they'd all be raped and tortured (like they did to others), or they killed themselves (including children, look up bonzai cliff, etc).

Imagine what the fight on the home islands would have looked like. Everyone with a gun killing everyone else, the fire bombings (which are horrific BTW, and we did plenty of those) would have continued.

Was dropping a nuke morally good? No, not really. But I think it was less morally bad than the other option, which says a lot about how bad the other option was.

Yep. There's actually a long historical debate, and anyone who thinks that "well it's wrong" is the end of it is historically ignorant at best, and a knee-jerk nazi retard at worst.

Ben is right here. "just asking questions" doesn't mean you actually understand the history of it, or have read books about it.

The bombing was not a moral good by any means, but neither were the fire bombing campaigns we carried out. War is always about the lesser of two evils when it comes to bombs, and in this case I at least believe (because this isn't a black and white absolute) the first bomb was justified to avoid causing millions more needless deaths. The second one is a bit trickier, but it's been a long time since I've read up on the exact time line of how the japan government reacted, so I can't be more specific about why right now. The Japanese tended to fight back to the death, because of propaganda they'd all be raped and tortured (like they did to others), or they killed themselves (including children, look up bonzai cliff, etc).

Imagine what the fight on the home islands would have looked like. Everyone with a gun killing everyone else, the fire bombings (which are horrific BTW, and we did plenty of those) would have continued.

Was dropping a nuke morally good? No, not really. But I think it was less morally bad than the other option, which says a lot about how bad the other option was.