Violence is not inherently evil. A cop shoots a dude between the eyes that's holding a knife to a woman's neck. Not evil. This is not hard.

1. The goodness of an action is measured by the intention of the action, not the result. We are all sinners. However, some amoral individuals have no desire to be anything but.
2. Not sure what you're getting at, but I don't ever listen to habitual liars.

What's positive about the atomic bombings is that that they seemed to have created a lasting image in the human imagination. None sense.

What is crazy is that the United States effectively wiped almost every major German and Japanese city off the map with conventional weapons and bombs prior to the nuclear attacks. Bombings killed around 100,000 French citizens trying to destroy the roads and bridges to prevent re-enforcements from arriving on D-Day.

If the only hope for good Christian values is a walking caricature of crass wealth who gets into feuds with Rosie O'Donnell and the ghost of John McCain, then bye-bye, horse, let me just close this here barn door.

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We've had a succession of Presidents that struggle to tell the truth.

I don't think you were here during the W administration.

I don't remember your complaints about the dishonesty of Obama being very loud.

I know good people that defend stuff like Hiroshima and the carpet bombing of Dresden.

I still find such thoughts strange.

I know good people that defend stuff like Hiroshima and the carpet bombing of Dresden.

I still find such thoughts strange.

I don't have a huge issue with either W or Obama. Clinton, I think, is a depraved individual. Instances of dishonesty are inherent to politicians across time and geography. Chronic, wild fabrications and delusions are entirely different.

I'm sure you are familiar with Catholic teaching on war. You may not be as familiar with the likely consequences of NOT dropping the A-bomb.

I just said I think Clinton is depraved. Did you lose your glasses?

There were about 100,000 Allied POWs already digging their own mass graves when the bomb was dropped. That's just a taste of things.

There's a great book from about 10 years ago, Unbroken. Read that and get back to me.

I'm sure you are familiar with Catholic teaching on war. You may not be as familiar with the likely consequences of NOT dropping the A-bomb.

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Was the 2nd bomb necessary?

I don't disagree with you that Japanese and German forces/governments did terrible things. But we dropped the bombs that killed women and children miles from the front.

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When you hear the stories of the Okinawan people (who don't consider themselves fully Japanese btw) and the atrocities committed upon them to defend the "Japanese" home islands, you really must wonder about the "innocence" of the masses there. Especially the women & older children being prepared to fight at close quarters to the death.

And it was spurred on by a delusional sense of religion and who was a god on earth in their minds.

You may not be as familiar with the likely consequences of NOT dropping the A-bomb.

Once again, you're making a case for an evil achieving a good.

That would be a good question for Emperor Hirohito.

for real. What a ridiculous notion.

Just go back to where you said this before and keep reading in a loop all day.

More innocent women and children would have been killed in ground invasion. What was your preferred course of action? Do nothing? Bring all the troops back home and leave our POWs there?

It's really not though. Stop looking at it through the lens of your own beliefs. If you're a person with devout Christian beliefs you had two choices- Donald Trump or allowing Hillary Clinton to continue to reshape the courts to support things you consider immoral. Choosing Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio was actually choosing Clinton.

This is pretty much a binary choice. And If you're still a "Never-Trump" Conservative you may as well support AOC and Bernie.

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My preferred course of action would be not to do evil in order to achieve a good.

Pretty soon everything will be legal except expressing an opinion about the LPGA tour...

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