| > It's bad practice to simply dismiss arguments as "propaganda" without engaging with them. Sure. If you are new to the discussion. But I'm not. I've come across all the rationalizations and of course the propaganda all my life. It's always the people peddling debunked propaganda who demand that propaganda be taken seriously. > The dropping of the atomic bomb was significantly more nuanced that what you are suggesting. Who cares? It's genocide. It's a war crime. It is pure evil. No excuse for it. > If the Allies had to engage in an island hopping campaign, then the lives lost likely would have outnumbered those lost to the atomic bombs. Are you seriously arguing the most racist nation on earth ( US ) cared about a bunch of non-white japanese lives? You do realize that the US had banned japanese immigration decades earlier because the japanese were inferior asians right? The genocidal firebombings of much of japan and hiroshima/nagasaki prove that the US did care about japanese lives. > The US wanted to end the war before the Soviet Union had time to get involved and start gaining territory; If so, the US would have accept japan's surrender in 1944 when japan start offering peace terms. > Hiroshima and Nagasaki were legitimate targets under the then accepted doctrine of total war. No they weren't. If japan or germany had nuked the US, those involved would have been tried and executed for war crimes/crimes against humanity. You are just regurgitating debunked and pathetic propaganda I've heard many times. All one has to do is think to see through the nonsense. How pathetic do you have to be to believe a white supremacist nation/government cared about saving japanese lives? The rationalization of evil. It's always evil that rationalizes the most. You sound more ridiculous than nazis who claim hitler tried to save the jews from the soviet communists. Imagine believing we nuked the japanese civilians to save japanese lives. That's beyond dumb and evil. |
You should. Being able to understand that the world is nuanced, entertain positions that you disagree with, and consider different views is an important life skill; both when forming one's worldview and in normal social interactions. Ironically, it's precisely those sorts of skills that we need to prevent an atomic bomb from ever being dropped in the future.