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Why the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were gravely immoral[0].

[0] https://catholicherald.co.uk/ch/weigels-terrible-arguments/




I don't see how it was any more immoral than anything else in WW2 that caused mass death and mayhem. Certainly if you are simply talking about casualties.

What was more immoral about dropping the a-bomb than firebombing Tokyo?


Both were war crimes, and as such unacceptable. Or rather should have been.

I like when people say "but the enemy did this and that, so us doing something similar is totally fine", because it is just false. But going to "we already did it once, so no biggy if we do it again right?" is even better. It acknowledges, and defends, the evilness of killing civilians at large scale at the same time. Kind of like wanting to be a big, badass and still feeling the need to morally justify all the shit one does.




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