A view of Hiroshima in the aftermath of the bomb being dropped.
225,000 men, women, and children dead. Some still defend the US attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as being "necessary."
Yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. According to the jumbled "official story" there was no choice but to drop the bomb. If it weren't for that bomb you'd be speaking German right now! is still the favorite line of many statists in the USA, and even around the world. Some in Japan even seem to believe it was a sad "necessity."
Regardless of the fact that there were many, many direct overtures of surrender and willingness to negotiate coming from the high ranking officials in the Japanese government prior to the bombings, individuals brainwashed by statist indoctrination and nationalistic programming still wish to somehow "justify" this mass murder. I would highly encourage anyone to research this topic (see hyperlink above).
All this notwithstanding, though, whether or not the Japanese government was planning to surrender is irrelevant when coming to a verdict on the morality of these acts of aggression. They were wrong. They were unethical. They were murder. The end.
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was pre-meditated mass murder, regardless of the Japanese government's stance on surrender at the time.
You see, a government's supposed evil plans never justify the taking of innocent life. This is where the collectivists and nationalists who support blanket military action against any and all individuals living within a given geographical region have it dead wrong.
When innocent people are killed, and innocent lives are taken in events such as those that transpired 72 years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is not just "collateral damage." It is....innocent lives being taken. And claims that all this was for the "greater good" are nonsensical. Why? Well, how can good come from evil? If taking innocent life is always wrong, how, then, can it ever be "right"? Performatively, the religious nationalists who make these "arguments" always contradict themselves, anyway.
Most Americans arguing for this "greater good" would not be willing to die for the "greater good" should it consist of some other country bombing them if the USA allied itself with some new, evil world power.
It was worth it for peace, they say. I say Great. The US is right now indiscriminately drone bombing villages in the Middle East. When someone from their country comes to the US to murder you, please step out and willingly die. It is worth it for peace, after all.
I would like to dedicate this post to all those who lost their lives in these bombings, as well as the firebombings that occurred in other cities, such as the one in Tokyo which was the deadliest single air raid in all of history.
RIP. There is a better way.
Thousands upon thousands of lives destroyed in seconds, with the push of a button from the air.
Tokyo after the infamous firebombing known as "Operation Meetinghouse," the deadliest bombing in history, still largely ignored and often forgotten.
This is the cancer called nationalism.
These individuals are to blame?
There is no apology that can erase this. Google "Voluntaryism," and come to your senses.
Peace.
~KafkA
(All images public domain, Wikipedia.)
Graham Smith is a voluntaryist activist and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
