We should definitely do everything in our power to ensure that it never happens again. As far as what happened in the past to me it isn't my sin or cross to bear. We can debate whether it was right or wrong all day, I lean towards wrong ,but I can definitely understand the why or at least the logic behind it. Japan started it and the US ended it in the most destructive way possible. Was it tragic? Yes. Was it necessary? I don't know and will not pretend to say I can definitively answer that.

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Posted on 4/22/24 at 6:32 am to stelly1025

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I don't know and will not pretend to say I can definitively answer that.

You should know though. The precept is not honestly debatable if one examines the alternatives.

Japan was keenly aware an American invasion was forthcoming. Japan was in no way shape or form ready to surrender. Quite the opposite. Their aim was to render the American cost of invasion so atrocious as to lead the American public to abort the effort. Casualties accompanying an invasion would have dwarfed those of Nagasaki/Hiroshima. Civilian casualties accompanying an invasion would have dwarfed those of Nagasaki/Hiroshima.

If one desires to retrospectively reconsider ethicality of our actions in WWII, discussions of firebombing (Tokyo, Hamburg, etc) are certainly open issues. But whereas Tokyo's firebombing (which killed more civilians than Hiroshima/Nagasaki combined) carried no associated expectation of ending the war, the A-Bombs did.

In contrast to Tucker's idiotic viewpoint, the Hiroshima/Nagasaki actions were far and away the most humane way of ending an inhumane war.

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