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

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ocnkng said:

viewtiful_jon said:

As almost all of the able bodied people in Japan at the time were willing to die for the empire and willing to fight with any weapons possible I think the bombs saved millions of japanise lives and half as many non japanise lives. It was the best stratagy in every way. It is common belief that Japan would of fought to literally the last man if an invasion on to there soil was made by the forces of the world.

 What was done ended the war sooner and helped rebuild the world sooner. No grey area in my mind.

'belief' is the keyword here. Yes it is your belief that this is the case instead of scientifically proven fact. Because there's no way that you or anyone else to know for sure what every able bodied person among a population of 70 mln would do 55 years ago.

But lets just assume that your 'belief' is true. In that case every able bodied person in Japan was ready to die in resisting an invading and occupying army. Do you think that this is very uncommon? Wouldn't you think that people of any proud country like the U.S. for example, would be ready to fight for their freedom against an invading army? So in that case does this justify the use of overwhelming and uncontrolled destrucitve force against that population?

Some people believe that the kamikaze pilots are evidence of this fanaticism, not realising that pilot's families were threatened in order to force the pilots to commit plane-based suicide.