While my view always has & will be that President Harry S. Truman should’ve dropped the atom bomb(s) elsewhere in Japan with fewer civilians killed & wounded(such as 1,500-3,000 rather than 150,000) he did what ended the war. My view also is that the allied bombing raids over both Germany & Japan should’ve been done with fewer civilian deaths as I don’t like the idea of killing kids who don’t want part of a war though their deaths did end the war.
But if both Germany & Japan had had the atom bomb(s), they would’ve used them against us & we may still be dealing with them today. Hiroshima & Nagasaki continued the policy of bombing cities to get the enemy to surrender and Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe & other Japanese cities were firebombed with so many civilian killed & wounded. Sadly as long as wars have been with us, people who don’t want part in the war end up being the 1s killed. Wars are out of the ordinary understanding. Most Germans & Japanese are Okay & we must not have animosity towards those born in August 1942 & killed in the atom bombings but I’ve heard people say that they don’t sympathize with those killed in both cities-not even the kids though the kids did no wrong.
It’s useless many years after the war to debate where the atom bomb(s) should’ve been dropped because what’s done is done & can’t be undone. Most Hiroshima & Nagasaki survivors have said that while they believe the atom bomb(s) if they were to be used should’ve been dropped elsewhere in Japan, they also don’t personally blame the U.S. for dropping the atom bombs because they understand that President Harry S. Truman’s intent was to end the war & that it wasn’t against them personally.
Yes, because they were both government by a ruling class that did not adhere to Moral Law, but were a law unto themselves; they believed that the intentional killing of innocent persons was justified in the larger scope of history and purpose; thus they did damnable things. What was our excuse, again?
Oh yeah, "justified in the larger scope..."
Yes, it's still relevant to debate whether indiscriminate killing of the innocent (in the war context, blameless noncombatants) is or is not to be tolerated. As a nation, 70 some years ago we answered that question "Yes." We have continued to say "Yes" by killing 50 million of our own children by abortion.
Sometimes it's hard to tell whether that's the crime or the punishment.
You gotta admit it's consistent.