“...Vonnegut is definitely against the bombing and based on his experience, who would argue against him?” [Michael.S.F., post 37]
“Vonnegut’s opinion wouldn’t have mattered on this thread, apparently.” [Captain Walker, post 167]
Does victimhood convey greater moral authority than anything else?
I thought that was a Left/Progressive concept.
Vonnegut was physically in Greater Dresden when the city was firebombed. (He doesn't have the qualification that the members of the Keyboard Warrior Class do, (of course), but he was physically present on the ground during the bombing.)
Anybody here who suggests for even a moment that the Allies went overboard in targeting a population center is labeled outright. So we have to refer to someone who has some more street cred. Vonnegut was an American, he had fought the Germans in combat, he was Jewish, and yet, he managed to see humanity in the innocent victims that "Christians" themselves can't seem to find.
The ultimate moral authority here is Natural Law; murder is intrinsically evil. "Yeah but they started it" might work for those still in the bar at closing time, but it doesn't stand up to reason; the idea that the Germans (or Japanese) were barbaric so we had to burn them to death doesn't make any objective sense at all.