If you want to compare deaths due to allied bombings, only count the deaths inflicted after the axis surrendered. THAT is the difference. The axis powers slaughtered people who were already under their total control, the allies bombed people who were actively fighting them before the bomb run, during it, and RTB.
Evil on such a broad scale requires many hundreds of thousands of willing actors at the bare minimum (and millions of passive participants). Giving everyone but a tiny handful at the top a pass means you miss an important lesson in what not to do (or allow) in the future. That's a mistake people make at their own peril, IMO.
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