Idk obviously the person arguing for nuking a city is wrong, but just saying "the bomb killed civilians" is not a great argument in my view. The counter there is obvious, and the reply made it: all war kills civilians. War is hell. In the mind of libs, dropping the bombs was justified specifically because it prevented even larger scale civilian deaths that would have resulted from a full scale invasion.
I think to argue against the bombs requires two things: pointing out the fact that the bombs were dropped largely as a show of force against the USSR/to prevent them from getting concessions from the Japanese government, and the inherent racism to the belief that the Japanese would have "fought to the last man" in the case of an invasion.
Yeah the guy against nukes doesnt have the right argument, but his sentiments are correct. Nuking civilians was not justified and nuking a military target wouldnt be either. I appreciate his attempt to go against the grain of a shitty :reddit-logo: post even if he doesnt have all the tools do so properly.
Idk obviously the person arguing for nuking a city is wrong, but just saying "the bomb killed civilians" is not a great argument in my view. The counter there is obvious, and the reply made it: all war kills civilians. War is hell. In the mind of libs, dropping the bombs was justified specifically because it prevented even larger scale civilian deaths that would have resulted from a full scale invasion.
I think to argue against the bombs requires two things: pointing out the fact that the bombs were dropped largely as a show of force against the USSR/to prevent them from getting concessions from the Japanese government, and the inherent racism to the belief that the Japanese would have "fought to the last man" in the case of an invasion.
Yeah the guy against nukes doesnt have the right argument, but his sentiments are correct. Nuking civilians was not justified and nuking a military target wouldnt be either. I appreciate his attempt to go against the grain of a shitty :reddit-logo: post even if he doesnt have all the tools do so properly.
most liberals don't even know the USSR was anywhere near Russia at the time.