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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
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The Japanese did carry out extremely brutal atrocities on the people of East Asia, especially Manchuria and China and against ex-pats and allied prisoners of war where soldiers themselves engaged in and took pleasure out of the torture, rape, and causing the deaths of millions of people.
While the ends are the same - both causing death and suffering on a horrific scale, the atomic bombs are irrelevant as a justification for equating personal actions of the Japanese and the Americans. It's like saying that the governor who signs the letter allowing the criminal to be executed is just as morally culpable as the criminal who tortured his victims to death.
The very reason the bombs were deployed were to avoid further conflict and bloodshed. It estimated and presented to Truman that continuing conventional war to actually invade Japan would result in another two million soldiers dying (that is not counting the untold civilian deaths).