A Moral War?

[outlawauron]

FaRmLaNd said:

kowenicki said:
The second world war was arguably a moral war.

Hitler was a lunatic, using jews as a scapegoat for this economic woes and ultimately moving toward genocide.

Thats a justifiable cause if ever there was one.

Pretty debatable considering the allies had the Soviet Union on its side. Not to mention the use of Nuclear weapons by the USA. Both sides were pretty morally bankrupt. But obviously the war was justifiable beause of Nazi Expansionism within continental Europe.

Is war moral? Probably not when it comes down to it. Justifiable yes, but the reality is war condemns so many people to suffering and death that it would be a hard ask to consider any act of war, or war itself morally sound. Unless you live in a theocracy or something I suppose.

Which raises the question, is morality universal? I don't believe it is personally. And if it isn't that makes this even muddier because the different sides have different morals to judge the conflict by.

But I suppose history is written by the victor anyway. So it doesn't really matter a great deal.

The loss of life is likely much lower with the use of the nuclear weapons against Japan than a full scale invasion through Japan.