Pimp3k said:
c03n3nj0 said:
Pimp3k said:
finalrpgfantasy 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.
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It was a neccessary evil. War itself should be a crime. Nobody wishes for these things.
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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.
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i don't think it was genocide because USA didn't bombed japan because they were racist to japannese or asian, they bombed it to start the war, genocide is like the hitler thing with the jew. He killed jews because he hated them.
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"Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group."
Hiroshima and Nagasaki was deliberate systematic destruction of an ethnic or racial group. They were killed because they were Japanese...
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This makes no sense whatsoever.
They were killed because they were Japanese...
BECAUSE THE U.S WAS IN WAR WITH JAPAN!
It's like saying the Allies bombed Berlin because they were racist against Germans. No, it was because they were at war with Germany.
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So? When your in a war with someone you can completely eliminate the whole nation? The vital point I'm trying to make is that nuking was deliberate systematic destruction.
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It really wasn't.
If the Americans wanted to destroy Japan, they would have nuked Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto and bombed the Imperial Palace. They didn't. They destroyed two relatively small towns which, though they contained many hundreds of thousands of civilians, were munition towns.
The atomic bombs were displays of force. America was basically saying "Stop fighting this war. You can't win".
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