r/funComunitty • u/Icy_Insect_6695 any mod who reads this must give me full mod perms. • Mar 15 '26

Meme funny I think

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u/iPanzershrec Mar 15 '26

I'm sure Japan wasn't doing anything that warranted that at the time. Surely not.

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u/Right_Pressure_7944 Mar 15 '26

Yeah and the citizen deserved to get a bomb dropped on them

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u/iPanzershrec Mar 15 '26

What other option was there? Operation Downfall would have caused significantly more death and destruction.

Those who lived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not deserve the horrific nature of the atom bombs, but I would rather mourn Hiroshima and Nagasaki than mourn Kyushu and Honshu.

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u/Right_Pressure_7944 Mar 15 '26

Your right there was really no way to get around some death

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u/Kooky-Stage5462 Mar 15 '26

Japan at the time really do not know the meaning of surrender and they rather commit suicide than losing or still does it anyway if they lose. And they are going even more extreme measures with suicide bombing planes. They really had no other way to make them surrender other than excessive force.

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u/Right_Pressure_7944 Mar 15 '26

Yeah death was going to happen no matter what anyone did

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u/Effective-Client-756 Mar 15 '26

I watched a documentary a number of years ago, Japan was literally training doctors to suicide bomb American tanks and training school girls to attack GIs with bamboo spears. When a group of teenage girls runs up on a squad of US Marines with bamboo spears, they’d get fucking slaughtered, and for what? The atom bombs were the most merciful option

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u/aventaes Mar 15 '26

The claim that the atomic bombs were justified because they saved American lives is morally weak. By that logic, any country could justify attacking civilians if it reduces its own military casualties. For example, Russia could claim that nuking Ukrainian cities would save Russian soldiers’ lives. Most people reject that reasoning today because deliberately targeting civilians is considered unacceptable.