You can’t convince that the 200,000 Japanese dead by nuclear blast is better that 10,0000,000 Japanese and 1,000,000 Americans killed by bullets, bombs, suicide and starvation.
“You can’t convince that the 200,000 Japanese dead by nuclear blast is better that 10,0000,000 Japanese and 1,000,000 Americans killed by bullets, bombs, suicide and starvation.” [Blood of Tyrants, post 27]
No one is talking “better.” It is arguable that 200,000 is less bad than 11,000,000.
The real world of decision-making often boils down to unhappy choices: poor alternatives, or poorer alternatives. People who recite the phrase “The lesser of two evils is still evil” and congratulate themselves on their moral discernment have given up all claim to seriousness.