(August 3, 2020 at 7:10 am)WinterHold Wrote: So as Japan, punishing all the inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the sins of the imperial army must be thought of considering your argument.
The inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in the imperial army. Ultimately, that's one of the weaknesses of the sort of full militarization that they (by necessity) were engaged in.
In any case, I'd suggest that the use of atomic weapons was decided more by practical and political metrics than any moral consideration of punishment and sin. If we want to address that dimension, and say that the use of the weapons was, in a moral sense, wrong - and I can see why we'd be interested in doing so - then it would behoove us to premise the statement on more accurate grounds.
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