death penalty

[toonski84]

Rhiannon makes a lot of good points, most of which are probably true, but another side to the story is that some of the worst casualties in the war came from the pacific. Whether that report saying we'd lose 60,000 men was created in purpose or not, it was probably right. The Japenese were some of the craziest fighters in history, using everything they could to fight. While yeah, they weren't all the honor-nuts movies sometimes depict them to be, they did their job the best they were able to fiercily. We lost an insane amount of troops invading other pacific islands, and the report certainly fits the situation much better.

Also, WWII was a different time in general. Countries were straight-forwardly self-centered, and it was more of an "us or them" sort of thinking. Civilians were bombed, and people were cool with it. The Germans bombed the English, the English bombed the Germans and the Americans bomb the Japenese. Incidiaries killed so many more innocent people than the Atomic bombs, it's insane. So while there was an inhumane lack of concern for civilians at the time, it wasnt a question of a specific country's morals so much as it was the general attitude. That's part of the reason Rhiannon is right, we wanted to show the world our power and the best way to demonstrate it was in wartime. You can demonstrate a bomb's power in a less poplated area than a big city.