RE: [Remember]:deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II
May 15, 2020 at 8:50 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2020 at 8:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We had a plan to firebomb tokyo with bats, too. Bats with little vials of incendiary. Different branches of the military traded the project back and forth to shuffle it's budget around. Called it the batcave. Setting fires was a thing. The japanese had a plan to use high altitude balloon bombs and favorable wind. It worked once. Didn't do much damage, but it did manage to kill a family picknicking in oregon.
Tokyo had military significance as a target. Strategic value. Similar to an attack on DC. If we're looking at firebombings and wondering about the legality or morality of it all, Dresden is probably a better example. No military significance. No strategic value. The brutality of that conflict, exemplified by these sorts of attacks (whether we think they were legal or justifiable or not) is what lead the western world to coalesce around a single narrative of minimum standards that we now call human rights.
You completely miss the mark with the idea that the west needs to be reminded of that past. Inexplicably so in the case of human rights. It's defined us, and while you may only be capable of seeing the golden age of your own cultures influence as a blameless paragon of governing principles, we in the west actually have learned from our history, so that it doesn't have to become our future.
Tokyo had military significance as a target. Strategic value. Similar to an attack on DC. If we're looking at firebombings and wondering about the legality or morality of it all, Dresden is probably a better example. No military significance. No strategic value. The brutality of that conflict, exemplified by these sorts of attacks (whether we think they were legal or justifiable or not) is what lead the western world to coalesce around a single narrative of minimum standards that we now call human rights.
You completely miss the mark with the idea that the west needs to be reminded of that past. Inexplicably so in the case of human rights. It's defined us, and while you may only be capable of seeing the golden age of your own cultures influence as a blameless paragon of governing principles, we in the west actually have learned from our history, so that it doesn't have to become our future.
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