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Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:39:34 GMT
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 03:52:06 GMT, Christopher L. Weeks uttered the following
profundities...
> Richard Dee wrote:
> >
> > Pearl Harbour was a military target. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
> > were civilian cities. There were sufficient industrial and
> > military targets available that would have resulted in
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> I'm not convinced. I think we basically had to really drive home that
> we don't view the world the way they did, and that we were willing to do
> anything possible to destroy them. I think we managed that with as
> little loss of value as possible.
The only positive thing was the quick and rapid end to the war. I
still think that it could have been brought to just as rapid
a close had the numerous military and industrial targets been
hit. What US civilian targets were hit by Japan? None that I
can think of (excepting a rogue bomb here or there during PH).
The 20th century has seen humanity take a great leap backwards
in terms of our "humanity." Chemical warfare, bombing of
civilian targets, etc.
> > Japanese surrender. Granted, what the Japanese did
> > throughout Asia was horrendous, and that it was war, but
> > that is no justification for incinerating civilian cities.
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> I think it is.
We will never agree on this point. Though personally, I am
upset that the cold war is over, and that the spectre of
nuclear anihalation is no longer with us, I cannot find any
moral justification for obliterating civilian targets.
War is hell, but leave the civilian targets alone!
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