Well I think the fact that Japan and germany were allies had alot to do with it.
[quoteHiroshima was of military importance too.[/quote]
So is Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington DC. Had they bombed those cities I would lean more to TWO japanese cities being necessary bombing targets.
Here’s what the nuclear drops where.
My dick is bigger than yours. Think about it, Japan got charged with war crimes for pearl harbor and we didn’t for TWO nuclear bomb drops on TWO major cities. You could say that Hiroshima was of military import, but the japanese civs killed in that bombing vs american? sorry I think america should’ve suffered some consequences for that, in the very least we owe the japanese more retribution for placing japanese americans into internment camps. Were they as bad as the jewish camps in germany? NO, of course not, but they were probably not even as bad as Gitmo. Still a travesty of human rights.
Had the situation been reversed Germany and or japan probably would’ve unleashed the japan. BECAUSE they would’ve done it does not justify it or make it right. Let’s say that I plan on stealing your car. To counter me you use preemption and steal my car. Does my intention make your action right?
Sarcasm. No but defecting german scientists did.
I’m sure they had more facts than they let on, it was a revenge bombing, completely unjustified, maybe some day when the intelligence records of the time are released we’ll realize that and move on.
we are animals. But we’re also more than animals. Animals can’t control their actions. Animals have no self control. Cats can be trained to use the bathroom, but as soon as they need to go they go, they can’t hold it for any length of time like we can. And if you don’t spay or neuter them they still get uncontrollable urges to mark their territory.
Violence is a compulsory response to a situation. For example let’s say that some skinny punk comes up to you and calls you a, scrotum faced shit licker. (or whatever is offensive these days.) Your immediate animal instinct tells you to:
A) call him a name back.
B) punch his lights out.
C) laugh at him, clearly he’s got low self esteem to call others names.
D) pity his low self esteem, and ignore him.
Through self control you can make your action non-violent and non-confrontational. There are other options you could take per circumstance.
society subjects us to ethics we learn morals. if you want to live spur of the moment and do whatever you feel the urge to do, than I’ve got one word for you.
“piggy”.
For all you determinstic self urgers, read “the road less traveled.”
if you read it with an open mind about self control and spiritual progression you may get something out of it. If you read it with your deterministic mind set and self control is impossible, it’ll do nothing for you.
take a st. johns wart and call me in the morning.
I’m not stating that violence is always impossible to avoid, unless everyone follows the morals of empathy and self control, violence will occassionaly be needed, like happened near my hometown, in the federal courthouse building where a nutcase walked in with a hand grenade threatening to set it off.
given the circumstances it was better to take out his life than to risk the lives of hundreds of innocents. BUT, he was the classic case of suicide by police, his hand grenade had been drilled out in the bottom, and he had a living will on his personage.
So deadly force? a good response? I think there are some good non lethal responses out there, like tasers or the “sound gun” which shoots a direct beam of sound energy at you that immobilizes you.
Remember self control means were free to choose our destiny. Peace can be a destiny of our fragile race if we embrace it whole heartedly.