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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
They did drop one on a city and they still didn't quit, why would dropping one into the Ocean have any impact on their decision making if they didn't care that a city was destroyed.
Anyways I hate arguments such as these because they completely ignore the historical context in which the bombs were dropped in the first place. Hundreds of thousands of American men had come home in body bags and those who didn't die and were taken prisoner were tortured in unimaginable ways. People were tired of war, they were tired of everything that went along with total war, and if you have the option to help put an end to your countries suffering, would it not be irresponsible not to? And that is not even beginning to mention the communist threat which everyone knew existed at the time.
Lastly the idea of globalization is a pretty recent phenomenon look at the popular views at the time regarding the Japanese and how they were viewed as humans, in the sense that they weren't
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Ahhh touche good sir!
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