[fr_freak]

Nobody is saying they don’t have the right to defend themselves. But is genocide ever really self defense? That’s the question.

Within the context of the show, the "genocide" would have been a perfectly reasonable act, given that the alternative was literally extinction of the human race. There may be a lot of drama in milking the question for lefties who love to watch moral ambiguity and self-loathing on TV, but for any sane human being, the choice was clear.

The analogy to Truman was false. He wasn't contemplating genocide on the Japanese. He was only planning to nuke two cities, and conventional bombing of cities, such as Dresden, was just as bad if not worse than the then-nukes. Also, the alternative to nuking Japan was not total extinction of Americans. If it had been, Truman would have dropped the bombs without the slightest moral qualms, as would 99.9% of America at that time. It took a good 60-70 years for us to reach a point in this country where kicking your enemies' asses in war is seen as a morally questionable thing to do. That kind of hippie thinking is rampant in Hollywood, and is blatant in BSG.

[dilvish]

The analogy to Truman is perfect. He wasn’t contemplating genocide, merely the killing of about 1/4 million people, yet he stopped to consider. And yet here you are saying genocide shouldn’t even be stopped to consider about.

It really isn’t a hippie show. You like to call it that, but you’re wrong.