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| darkknight109 12/01/17 1:41:47 AM #61: | RoboXgp89 posted... If Japan wanted to surrender they would have surrendered Which is exactly what they were trying to do. They had already entered into negotiations for their surrender before the bombs were dropped. Kyuubi4269 posted... I doubt it's an issue of threat rather than humanitarian concern. Kill the few to free the many. I always feel like the scope of destruction that would be unleashed by war on the Korean peninsula is dangerously downplayed in these sorts of discussions. Various institutions have run the numbers and they are fucking grim. One estimate has one million people dying in the first hour of the war. It's not so much "kill the few to free the many", it's "kill the many to free the survivors". InfestedAdam posted... I just find it a little weird when people want to start a war when it isn't them who is gonna suffer the consequences. Why do you find that weird? It's astronomically *easier* to declare war when it's not you who's going to wear the consequences. Think back to the early 2000s and how many people were gung-ho about invading Iraq to get rid of Saddam. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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