“Don’t kill without a reason”? So, tell me, then, were there reasons for the war in Vietnam? Or maybe there were reasons for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia? Or maybe it was necessary to bomb Hiroshima?

coffeeman777:

I’m sure there were reasons. I have no idea what they were, no way to know whether they were justified. Probably not in a lot of cases.

What’s your point?

i can’t answer for Yugoslavia, but…

Vietnam was to stop the spread of communism, and it failed because literally everyone was against us: the Vietcong lived in South Vietnam and looked no different than civilians, but were sympathetic to the communist North Vietnam. Also back home, the entertainment and news media – which still held sway over the minds of the Western World – were strongly and vehemently against the war (it might have to do with the fact that those who were most vocal against Vietnam were -gasp- socialists!)

and you cannot tell me that a land invasion of Japan, which would have resulted in millions of deaths of US military and the total annihilation of the Japanese population – civilian and military – which would have used atomic weaponry just the same, was the “morally superior” option.

here’s the “too lazy: don’t read” version for you, anon: