(September 11, 2012 at 10:01 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: ...
Basically...pragmatism, lesser of two evils kind of thing. Ultimately that's where my retrospective support of the atomic bombings comes from, is the evidence that I've dug up that doesn't point to Japan doing much surrendering under "mere" duress of invasion and what they seemed willing to do to prevent such an invasion.
That make it a little clearer, I hope?
Why measure "evil" by number of causalities?
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
