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Aielyn on 22 May 2016
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Aeolus451 said:
Aielyn said:

Obama isn't just a person, he's also the foremost representative of "The American Government". His apology would not be a personal apology, but a "Governmental apology".

Kind of like how, if a CEO of a company makes a decision that harms a lot of people, then gets fired, the new CEO will apologise for what was done, despite not being involved in the decision or being in any way personally at fault.

That's idiotic. People will be apologizing til the end of time for something that happened ages ago. It's also dishonest because a person can't apologize for something they didn't do. I understand that apologizing in that way has become a trend but that doesn't mean they should keep doing that. 

No need to apologise "to the end of time". Just once. America has not once apologised for using nuclear weapons on innocent people. You are the only nation on earth who has done so.

And if you don't understand the concept of apologising on behalf of another person, or on behalf of an organisation or government, then I pity you.

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Dark_Lord_2008 said:
Japan would not surrender, if it was not for the two atomic bombs.
It could be argued that the atomic bombs saved more lives and prematurely ended the second world war. 
The Japanese government should apologise for the horrendous treatment Allied prisoners suffered at the hands of the Japanese soldiers.

That's one of those lies that America has kept telling itself - that Japan wouldn't have surrendered without the bombs, and that the bombs therefore saved lives.

There is simply no evidence to justify either of these beliefs. But even if there were, treating Japanese civilian lives as a worthy sacrifice to reduce American military casualties is an abhorrent way to view the events. The people who were obliterated, the people who were massively poisoned and suffered long, agonising deaths due to radiation poisoning, the people who lost everything because America felt they were justified in using a Weapon of Mass Destruction twice. Mistreatment of prisoners is certainly a problem, but they were military. The people who were murdered en masse in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilians. If you honestly believe that the Japanese government should *again* apologise for their actions, and that it is not appropriate for America to apologise for its abhorrent actions, then you are, yourself, abhorrent.