Have you ever heard of "Occam's Razor"?
Occam's Razor
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Occam's Razor (also spelt Ockham's Razor), is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham. It forms the basis of methodological reductionism, also called the principle of parsimony or law of economy.
In its simplest form, Occam's Razor states that one should make no more assumptions than needed. Put into everyday language, it says the simplest explanation is the best.
When multiple explanations are available for a phenomenon, the simplest version is preferred. For example, a charred tree on the ground could be caused by a landing alien ship or a lightning strike. According to Occam's Razor, the lightning strike is the preferred explanation as it requires the fewest assumptions
You and the other revisionists might take heed of this wisdom.
Harry Truman was not a complex man in any known aspect of his life. Many of his writings (such as to his wife and friends) survive to indicate that he was shaken up to become president and had many self-doubts about being up to the responsibility. There is absolutely nothing in his life to suggest in the least that he could evolve into a meglomaniac.
The simple explanation is that upon being urged (by many, but not all) to employ the A-bomb, he made this choice to bring about the swiftest end to the war possible. And indeed, the bombs ended the war (which Japan had started)within a matter of days, saved tens of thousands of additional U.S. casualties, and brought our men and women home.
Only the most fanatical and obsessed of revisionists, driven by a pre-conceived agenda, would labor so mightily to invent a complicated and contrived alternative explanation when the simplest one so perfectly fits the man and the facts. |
