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Originally Posted by Reaves
You said Truman should have been imprisoned for killing civilians. Well my response was that Churchill was the first to initiate full scale city bombing. This was in response to a bomb dropped on London by accident by a German bomber. Therefore Churchill is responsible for many civilian deaths as well. Is it differant because one bomb was bigger?
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I think he already said Churchill should go to jail too.
What w-subcommander clearly subscribes to is deontological ethics, where everything is compared to an absolute rulebook- there are certain recommendations in creating that rulebook, such as "Imagine if everyone did your action, would that be good". So lying and killing are clearly bad. But the important thing is that the rulebook is absolute.
Once engraved in the rulebook, it cannot be broken for any reason, no matter what the utilitarian gain. If you are a hardcore deontologist, you won't lie to save a friend from a murderer, so by that standard, whatever the correct amount of people saved overall is, killing is wrong so the dropping of the A-bomb is wrong.