What may we do in the name of justice and peace? Hiroshima? Nagasaki? My Lai? Were the killing fields of Cambodia a means to a just end? They threw children against trees until the screams silenced! That is barbarism... but the atom bombs? Can anyone believe the argument that the thermonuclear devastation of the two Japanese cities were necessitated by mercy and human solidarity? Shit! A humanitarian effort to end the war as soon as possible, and by doing so saving lives countless? I have certainly heard it being proposed. Maybe, who knows, really. It was surely an inspiring factor, at the least. If you are cynical, you would call it a propagandistic argument, but if you are idealistic, you would call it a humanitarian argument. And, while on the subject of the greatest war, I must ask you: was there a higher degree of common evilness amongst the Germans of the Third Reich than what could be found in for example the United States during the same historical period? A hideous question, but it is burning with hideousness like a light: when the collective goes insane, how does one assess the criteria of culpability for the individual?
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