Re:Hiroshima (1946)
by clarkmoody on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:38AM
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> literally made the whole of the country a military target
This is exactly the sort of collectivist thinking that makes it possible to have WWIII. When you can disregard fundamental human dignity based on the actions of a government, you've already lost.
Well, it's somebody's fault.
Japan wanted to be left alone. Western powers took it to war to force it to their will.
Re:Hiroshima (1946)
by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @11:38AM
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> Japan wanted to be left alone.
Yeah, left alone to create the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperit...).
You're welcome to ask the various Asian nations of that region whether they thought that was a good thing but I doubt you'd like the response.
That's after the West pushed it to break isolationism and taught it it had to be ruthless to be respected, not before.
In other words, that's a century later...
Re:Hiroshima (1946)
by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:31PM
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Ah, the classic "But he hit me first" argument[0]. Very persuasive. /s
[0] Also known as the "two wrongs make a right" fallacy. See https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
It's not the fault of the US that the government of Japan militarized their whole society and literally made the whole of the country a military target.