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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
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).
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This is a bizarre sentence. You're suggesting that since the atomic bomb did the killing for Americans that they're some how morally cleansed of the action? Or are you saying that because Japan 1st attacked America the Allies could use whatever force necessary to end the war, even bombing civilians? Please elaborate.