BarkellWH -> RE: I'm leaving the off topics section (Mar. 9 2013 22:13:09)
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But would you have the same opinion if, in a hypothetical situation, those were 200,000 american lives? I realize your question is hypothetical, but it has no framework or context. In the case of Japan, this was a country that had attacked the United States and with which we had been in a bitter war for more than three and one-half years. the Japanese had shown they were ready to sacrifice everything in bitter resistance, with many thousands of lives lost on both sides, in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. It was just a taste of what an invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been like. Within the context of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it makes no sense to ask about killing 200,000 Americans with atom bombs. You would have to provide context. In your hypothetical context, what would necessitate the United States killing 200,000 Americans with an atom bomb? Off hand, I can think of no conceivable situation in which the US would kill 200,000 Americans with an atom bomb in order to save a million. Cheers, Bill
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