Oddbean new post about login | logout Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just. Terrible, but just. nostr:note1qt2sj03ag2e9amnjd29wlpcuwegnlk2k0vykc0rvfw3c76wcckfqqrsnch
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/why-the-us-really-bombed-hiroshima/ Just?🤔🧐😳🤮
That the bombs were more to signal to the Russians is an interesting theory
Guess I'm uninterested in the pretext... Mostly utterly appalled at the evil, and at the horrendous price paid by innocents... My present outlook on nation-states is that they are all fundamentally and structurally evil, and need to be disregarded, self-destruct, and be supplanted; https://peakd.com/library/@creatr/the-kingdom-of-jesus-god-the-heavens-my-library-shelf
Just? Just? Dude, this right there, is at the root of all that is happening today. US staying comfortable in their office and throwing bombs thousands of miles away to make a stand. Just is a direct combat. THIS is abuse of power, the power of nature, of atoms, of fixed laws that humans broke to access that force. Children with strong weapons and no moral base, this is US "defence" for me. And that incident was the only time when they actually had something to defend. Rest of the times just meddling in others business. The past 100 years are just a big dark spot dressed in rainbows, in the history of human evolution. We might as better accept the reality of our faults and make a goddamn change.
No. [Just War theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory)
Civilians of many other cities were targeted during WWII as well, so it was certainly standard practice. That so soon thereafter, the civilized world collectively declared targeting civilians a war crime by the 1949 Geneva Conventions suggests to me the would-have-been offending governments themselves simply operated without regard to any moral compass. So, to me, classifying it simply as 'legal' (until 1949) would be a bit more accurate than 'just'.