Hiroshima and Nagasaki

With the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. DIRECTLY targeted civilians.  They also directly targeted civilians with the firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden.  The Japanese and German GOVERNMENTS committed many atrocities, but that in no way makes it moral or right for the U.S. to murder civilians in those countries.

You can make all the arguments you want about how murdering these civilians brought an early end to the war.  This does not change the fact that civilian men, women, and children were murdered.  When other people do this, we call them terrorists.  That label applies equally here.

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i have an experiment for you.  try to find the argument that you make in your post.  you know - premise --> conclusion.  you'll find that your conclusion, that targeting and killing civilians is murder, is based on an ultra-weak premises of your own moral judgment.  Let me rephrase your argument, with different words but with the exact same premise and conclusion...



It SEEMS TO ME that people should never target civilians.  THEREFORE people who kill civilians are murderers. 

-let me change it up for you....

It SEEMS TO ME that people sometimes need to target civilians.  THEREFORE people who kill civilians aren't always murderers


Who the fuck are you to declare moral absolutes?  Fuck you.  Let me use the exact same logical structure to make my argument