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To: Solon who wrote (42622)	1/25/2002 12:52:52 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) of 82486

CH is correct in his assessment You never sought to discuss this subject, only to force your own conclusion upon others. Your fixed viewpoint is clearly revealed by this proposition: "The atomic bombs, far from being the 'controlling' factor, caused no significant reorientation of attitudes, no manifest change in point of view." So if that is the case, then how could these be viewed as military necessities rather than the long planned fulfillment of Grove's personal obsession? Apply this logic to the man waving a gun in a shopping mall who is shot dead by the police, where the gun is later found to have been empty. Your proposition would be: The gun, far from presenting any danger, was found to be empty. So how could killing the man be viewed as a necessity? Both propositions hold that knowledge gained after the fact should have informed decisions made before the fact. The rest of us see that as absurd logic. Many decisions, perhaps most, are seen in a different light, long after the fact. This tells us absolutely nothing about the reasonableness of the decisions at the time they were made.

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