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From: Andrew Gryphon webmaster@*********.com
Subject: [OT] Black & white matters (was Re:Want a new Limb?)
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:58:18 -0500
on 8/18/00 5:27 AM, Spike at spike1@****.freenet.co.uk e-scribed:

>> Absolutely. Bomb a few cities just so you can see what this new weapon
>> actually does, no matter that the Japanese are already thinking hard about
>> calling it quits anyway...
>
> Couldn't agree more...
> Who cares if the targets of these scientific tests are cities teaming with
> civilians who have nothing to do with the war, and probably civilians not
> even FROM the enemy country... As long as you get some scientific data that
> you can use to build a bigger weapon, that you can also test on the same
> poor sods...

Keep in mind that civilians always suffer in war. Nature of the beast. And
I'm not enough of a historian to know what Japan was planning, but my
understanding has always been that they planned to drag it out longer & that
more lives would've been lost through those battles than were lost via the
bombs. I also consider soldiers innocent bystanders. They really don't have
much choice where they'll end up, any more than a person has the choice
where to live & enjoy any given country's particular rights & perks.

Remember the episode of M*A*S*H:
Hawkeye: War is worse than hell.
Father M.: How do you figure?
H: Who goes to hell?
FM: Sinners.
H: Right. No innocent bystanders.

All that said, I'm biased. I'm patriotic. More importantly, my grandfather
would've been on the next plane over there and would probably be dead
instead of coming home & fathering my dad. I can thank the H-Bomb for my
existence. Hard to complain at this point. Still a tragedy, though. War
sucks for everyone.

--
Andrew Gryphon
http://www.Wyrmworks.com
Taking Role-Playing to the next level

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