If a decision about dropping atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 is vindicated by the existence and well-being of specific Americans in 2020, then what about all the people who don’t exist in 2020 because of military decisions that cost AMERICAN lives in World War II? Does your life matter more than, say, the hypothetical grandson of a U.S. Marine who lost his life in the Battle or Okinawa, Iwo Jima, etc.? For that matter, why don’t we go back and ask the same question about the morality of the Battle of Gettysburg, or even the American Revolution?
i’ve met MANY other asses who were from the Greatest Generation who were soldiers in WWII who told me the same thing about their survival vis-a-vis the bomb obviating the necessity of them having to invade Japan, given that estimates were that a million additional U.S. casualties were expected from such an invasion ...