What's your point of view in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb?

[Pimp3k]

c0rd said:

Pimp3k said:

oldschoolfool said:

forest-spirit said:

Of course it's a crime. Massacring hundreds of thousands is a severe crime no matter your intentions.

It was a neccessary evil. War itself should be a crime. Nobody wishes for these things.

There is no such thing as "necessary evil". There is simply evil or god. Calling something as necessary evil will not justify it. It was maybe necessary from your point of view because your American. But intentional killing of millions civilians is nothing more and nothing else then genocide.

It didn't kill millions of civilians. (though it killed quite a lot...)

However, million(s) of people probably would have died if it weren't dropped. Do you consider this alternative to be "good?"

OK half a million.

War is a bad thing and about what would have happened if the A-bombs were never dropped we can now only speculate. People do ugly things in wars but there is a limit to everything. Mass murder is a crime, thats a fact.

As my war experience is quite fresh (Yugoslav Wars '91-'95) ill share few things with you. Every side did what they thought it was necessary. As a result of that was half a million people displaced, mine fields thruout Croatia and Bosnia (that are not yet cleared and every year several children still dies because of them), mass graves as a result of mass executions of war prisoners, Ovcara massacre,  Srebrenica genocide... just to mention a few. Every side did what they thought was necessary but that does not mean it was a right thing to do, or a good thing to do.

 

Everyone that thinks that A-Bombs were necessary evil should read "Sadako will leben by Karl Bruckner (eng The day of the bomb).