Let’s play devils advocate for a second: 1945 The US targets Japanese civilians brcause they...

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

I'm in favour of detonating nukes in the stratosphere and wiping humanity out. I hand over responsibility for the planet to the humble termite. They have less drama and cuter butts.

SW-User

Americans and Soviets destroyed Berlin too. But I think there's a disproportionately problem. Hitler was trying to conquer Europe, killed millions, Japan and the US were in a hot war for years before the atomic bombs were dropped. Hamas committed a terrorist act that killed 1400 people. In response Israel invaded Gaza and killed over 10,000 and counting. I don't have a dog in the fight but it sure looks like a terrorist attack was answered with war crimes. But the truth will be foggy for some time.

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

Let's not forget when they shoved their own countrymen into camps for the crime of being ethnically Japanese.

Pretzel · 61-69, M

didn't the US end up paying reperations and apologizing - albeit decades later?

I think that show that it wasn't okay

ArcticDave · M

I say drop that fucker. Twice

WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M

This should be interesting 🍿

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

goals and narrative...

HeidiA · 41-45, F

😂

LushMagic · 46-50, F

Subsumedpat · 36-40, M

Civilians are killed in every single war, ever. It is only when they are the primary target that we have a problem with it.

DDonde · 31-35, M

Let's just say the late stage of WW2 was a very bad time to be a civilian in central and eastern Europe or East Asia.
There's been a lot written about the justification or lack thereof of the bombing of the cities of the axis powers but in the moment there wasn't a lot of thought given to the morality of it. They were just trying to win. After years of war these things end up with a momentum that's hard to oppose.

I would say the two situations are wildly different. I'm not trying to justify either though.

LordShadowfire · M

It all depends on who the aggressors are. When they're your own people, and the other guys are really, really aggressive, it becomes easier to justify the wholesale slaughter of civilians.

Doesn't make it any less fucked, though.