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Originally Posted by Si modo
Let's see (as it is so easy to simply scroll throught to see them, I'll try repeating them to athe blind):
You: Blockade
Several others: Starvation of Japanese civilians
You: Blockade to limit trade
Several others: The island depends on trade to feed its people
You: Blockade to limit trade, but allow food in
Several others: The army would confiscate the food
You: Then the blood is on their hands
Several others: And the Japanese still starve AND the Japanese military is still active AND there is no surrender as you think there would be
You: You (to posters) worship vaporization of humans or you (other posters) worship the bomb.
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Me: Then other strategies are still possible, and they still have zero ability to wage offensive warfare (which is everyone's excuse for the bomb)
Everyonelse: silence and insults to defend wounded egos.
keep in mind that a blockade was just one thing that came to me off the top of my head, it is by no means central to my argument:
Dropping the bomb was wrong because the country it was directed at had no ability to wage offensive warfare (despite the stubbornness and delusion of the Japanese army)