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JGB's avatar

Back in college a prof overheard some of us debating the morality of atomic bombs and he interjected - The real debate should be over the morality of killing civilians, and not over what particular weapon is employed.

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The atomic bomb is one of those moral issues that really does feel like a "both sides" issue, because nuclear weapons are truly horrifying. But if the Japanese fascists had just surrendered, none of this would have happened. Those samurai lunatics were bloodthirsty animals who brutally butchered millions.

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