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by phendrenad2 2900 days ago
If you’re just talking about the islands themselves, I’d say that falls under the umbrella of aesthetics: are the islands more or less beautiful now? We’ll never have an aesthetics court to argue such things, sadly.
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I expect most people would agree that an unbombed island is more aesthetically appealing than a bombed one. I don't need a court to decide which one I prefer.
There are a couple islands which have massive holes in them now. We're not talking about small craters. You can see them on Google Maps.
Holes in islands are natural. A meteorite could easily have made the crater instead. Humans didn't do anything abnormal to the islands, really.
Can't tell if trolling or serious.