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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by rland on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:00PM (#24102868)
We had a discussion about this in high school, I think my junior year. Most of these types of discussions were very lopsided, so the teacher would usually have to encourage people to take the “bad/unpopular” position somehow. But this one was right down the line in my class and produced a lively debate. I still think about it, but my opinion hasn’t changed — it was the correct decision.
Re:Hiroshima (1946) by j-james on Sunday August 09, 2020 @06:01PM (#24103309)
My Modern World History class in high school also did this.

Our debate came down to whether or not directly / immediately killing hundreds of thousands of citizens was justified by potentially preventing even more dying in a subsequent invasion. The class was similarly split.

Re:Hiroshima (1946) by KingOfCoders on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:44AM (#24105627)
While instead the high school should have taught about false dilemmas.