1. According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_ ... by_country
of all of the deaths taking place as a result of World War II, there were around 23.5 million military deaths, and around 40.5 civilian deaths. That means that for every soldier who died, there were 1.72 civilians that died. So civilian deaths made up about 63% of all deaths.
Since the historians estimate that MillionS of Japanese would have died if the U.S. were to invade Japan, it implies that over a Million Japanese CIVILIANS would have died.
Одобрять убийство мирного населения как меньшее из зол - это просто за пределом.
Are you saying that it is ok to cause the death of over a Million of Civilians, just so that nobody could say that you are implicated in the death of 130,000 (this is KR's numbers, but the true number is in that ball park - definitely not comparable to a million) civilians? Do you think that someone who values human life should choose for over a million of civilians to perish, instead of choosing for 130,000 to perish? Remember, those are the only alternatives.
2. The only good argument to value a child's life more than the life of an adult, is that the child would be losing more years of life. But if we accept this logic, then we should be comparing the average life expectancy of a typical soldier (a young man) to a typical civilian. The soldier is expected to lose more years (on average) if he is killed than a civilian. So...
3. It makes sense to distinguish between soldiers and civilians when the soldiers volunteer to serve in the army. Since most of the young men who participated in WWII were forcefully drafted into the army, saying that the death of a civilian is more tragic than the death of a soldier is equivalent to saying that the life of a young man is somehow worth less than the life of people from other groups (women, children, old people). To me, saying that is shockingly offensive.
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Это была игра мускулами - показать Союзу, что экпансировать войну дальше не стОит и пытаться.
And you don't think that preventing countless deaths (WWIII?) by persuading USSR to stop fighting is not a worthy goal?!
I just realized that it took USSR FOUR years to develop an atomic bomb of their own (the first test took place in August 1949).
I think the Real Crime Against Humanity here is the unwillingness of the U.S. government to use their atomic bombs against USSR to liberate Russia and other republics from Stalin and his men. At the very least, they shouldn't have abandoned the Eastern Europe to the Soviets...
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А вот давайте на минуточку представим WW3 и агрессором будет Канада??? И на Оквиль скинуть ядерную бомбу, что бы предотвратить производство танков на завод ГМ или на Ванкувер просто показать Уганде, которая на данный момент будет в коалиции с Канадой, что надо капитулировать тоже???
I don't understand your point. Those would all be valid reasons to use the bomb, right? Just because I would not want to be around an atomic bomb when it explodes, doesn't mean that I can't put myself into the shoes of my opponent and see that dropping the bomb there is completely justified.
Вопрос не в том что предотвращали гибель других людей, вопрос в том как и какими средствами.
The question is whether one cares about minimizing the number of deaths, or about "keeping up appearances". I am on the side of minimizing death and suffering. You seem to be supporting the other side.
Если вы считаете что любая цель оправдывает средства к ее достижению
I think that in general the lives of 1,000,001 people are worth more than the lives of 1,000,000 people. Not trying to minimize casualties is murder.
Разве есть у кого нибудь сомнения что мы, в этом случае, определили бы сброс атомных бомб на города как военное преступление, и что в Нюрнберге мы приговорили бы ответственных за него немцев к смерти, и повесили бы их?
I don't know anything about show trials, law, Nuremberg trials, the law used during Nuremberg trials, etc, so I can't comment on the above. All I can say is that if I were one of the judges presiding during such a hypothetical trial, I would find the defendants not guilty.
Так вот у меня вопрос почему просто нельзя вспомнить о мирном погибшем населении в ходе ВМВ.
Makes sense. What I was objecting to was you referring to people who authorized the dropping of the bomb as "одни не очень умные человеки".
Моё сообщение на английском, потому что мне легче и быстрее печатать на английском.