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To: TimF who wrote (61551)	4/24/2008 3:33:35 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542149

>>Lets try a different tact, to separate consequentialism from the acts being morally unacceptable under any circumstances. If it was an iron clad lock that they reduced the number of civilian deaths, and that they reduced total deaths to half or less, would you still find the bombings unacceptable?<< Tim - Obviously, any tactic that reduces the overall number of deaths while still achieving victory is the better tactic. As you may have seen in my recent response to ManyMoose, more than 580,000 Japanese civilians were killed in WWII. To put the number in perspective, that is roughly 159,000 more than the total number of American soldiers killed in both the Pacific and European theaters (416,800). The Japanese also had 2,100,000 military deaths. Don't even get me started about Dresden. - Allen