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I understood you clearly. To which I repeat:
Unbelievable moral equivalency rubbish.  |
Are you skirting the issue by rubbishing it or do you think that the ends is always a justification for the means? |
On the contrary! Ends don't justify means should be almost an ironclad rule. There was nothing wrong or evil in the means used by the US in dropping the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's exactly the point! |
:hmm: So it was a justification in it's self?
I don't understand?
Isn't the only reason for a action to achive something other than the action it's self? |
With the A bomb I'd look at it like this the nuke kills X number of people, the prolongation of the war kills Y number of people, if Y>X then drop bomb.
I'd probably introduce a scaling factor for X to represent them being baddies and starting the war, or am I being simplistic again? |
Hehe....you haven't read the rest of the thread have you?
