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Originally Posted by jwb
I think that we've been on a general upward moral trajectory, but it's a rough art
And in the moment self preservation will often seem more pressing
And I feel in the case of that decision, I don't think they really made the wrong choice
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I would say that deciding to drop bombs we don't understand is a morally grey area at best, but we still knew that the bombs would kill a number of people, civilians no less, that should have been horrifying to the point that we should have not dropped them (to say nothing of our world's shared moral failures for having conducted the war in the first place). But even giving allowance for a time and place where the morality would have tipped to dropping them we now should understand that dropping nuclear weapons on a civilian population is unconscionable and the lesson was learned by dropping them.