| mai said: ^The main reasoning behind nuclear bombings of Japan is rather political than military. I could understand cynical but honest attitude of people admitting that bombings were a necessity though of different kind, but pretence of any morality (saved lives etc) behind it... hardly. The rest is just lyrics. You probably understand where I'm going with this, so I leave it as that due to a lack of time for going into further detail. |
That really depends on your definition of morality I suppose.
I suppose if you are a Lawful good D&D type it would be immoral. Since a wrong action is a wrong action. (AKA: assassnated adolf hitler before he came to power would be wrong because you would be assassanating someone.)
I don't think they chose to bomb for moral reasons, so much as saving their own troops lives and cutting off the russians from dividing japan reasons.
Me, I think when your forced between shitty options and not making a choice will just make things even worse, then the action that is least shitty is in fact the moral choice.
When given a "Sophies choice" moment, I think the most moral thing to do is to choose the negative option that has the best results. I think choosing neither and letting both your kids get gassed or whatever is actually the immoral option... and also cowardly.
Life is far from perfect, and in a lot of situations it comes down to just doing the most with awful circumstances.
