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Originally Posted by Andy Temple 70,000 people died at Hiroshima and about 40,000 at Nagasaki, so as far as single one off acts go, theses are the worst, but yeah you'd kill more peolle bombimg the shit out of a town for a few weeks. |
german estimates for hamburg range from 100,000 - 135,000 and although bombs were dropped for three days, the first night's 150mph 1200 degrees C firestorm did most of the killing.
meh, i din't suppose there is a "worst" - each time ONE civilian is killed in iraq (today for example, multiple times relicated across the land) it's the worst for that person's family.
we HAVE learned that indisscriminate bombing of civilian targets is unacceptable. the SUCCESS of our attempts to avoid it is questionable, but we're moving in the right direction i guess.
i couldn't drop bombs for a living though, however much i believed in the cause at hand, not because i'm naïve enough to say "there should never be war" but just because of the same selfish reasons that i want someone ELSE to slaughter the meat i eat. it's convenient to have someone else do the hard things in life.
grim but true
