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To: elmatador who wrote (42318)12/1/2003 10:45:49 PM
From: AC Flyer  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
>>What next? Going to the Bible to find massacres? Look, only misinformed people utilizes past cruelty as an argumentation.<<

The issue being discussed was whether the nuclear bombing of Japanese civilian populations in 1945 was justified by the way in which the Japanese conducted their military campaigns at that time and by their likely resistance to an invasion of the Japanese mainland at that time.

>>We can't judge yesterday's people by the moral standards of the 21st century<<

I'm sick of this kind of moral relativism. Japanese conduct against Chinese and Philippine civilians and against prisoners of war of all nationalities was overwhelmingly brutal. This behavior occurred less than 60 years ago - well within living memory. I am quite comfortable judging it by contemporary moral standards, which, imho, are little different than they were in 1945.

>>We have evolved as civilizations and pogroms are no longer morally accepted<<

Really? Can you say Kosovo? And, btw, do you remember how the Europeans begged the US to intervene, as they did not possess the political will or the means to do so themselves?

>>you need, perhaps, three or four Vietnams<<

This is rich coming from you, elmat. Whenever I label you and your opinions as Brazilian, you squeal in hysterical denial. But my opinions, of course, are American.
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