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Karovorak posted...

This.

I don't think I have ever seen someone saying "well, bombing civilians is terrible, but it's better than the alternative".

I don't think I have ever seen someone saying "The use of nukes would be justified in this case."

except for the case of the only two nukes used in history. Then it's suddenly "necessary", "justified" or the "lesser evil".

To me its not even about lesser evil, because that's a poor argument. Killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and leaving many more grossly sick is just...not even words for what that is.

What makes some sense to me is framing in the contexts of game theory. The nazis would absolutely have used nukes all around the world if they had been able to develop it in time. Their first bomb would probably have hit right at moscow or washington or london.

As Von Neumann put it,

If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at 5 o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?