• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    7 months ago

    They did one test in the desert which did not clearly show the destruction. It did not show the deaths. It did not show the shadows on the wall. It did not show the burns. It did not show the blindness. It did not show the radiation sickness.

    And the very first words in my post were, “I do not wish to justify the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” so I don’t know why you seem to think I believe they were justified.

    Do you really not think anything the future can learn from can come out of a tragedy, no matter how horrific?

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      7 months ago

      Saying you don’t wish to justify the tragedy doesn’t mean that wasn’t exactly what you were doing.

      People don’t need to see something to know it’s going to be destructive. I have never personally seen a bloody car accident but I still know to avoid them.

      Plus it’s not like people hadn’t seen a bomb before? Of course the nuclear bomb was worse, but all you have to do is see the damage existing bombs do, know that’s bad, and know that the nuclear bomb is going to be worse because they were designed to be worse.

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        7 months ago

        Being able to find something good out of a tragedy is not justifying the tragedy in any way.

        Look up the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Almost all labor rights in the U.S. came out of it. Does that justify all of those women dying? Of course not. That doesn’t mean that it didn’t result in making changes that ended up stopping many, many other people from being exploited and killed at work.

        And if you don’t like that, feudalism was destroyed because the Black Death made workers a scarcity, which meant that lords could no longer hold them to farmsteads. Does that mean the Black Death was a good thing? I would hope you wouldn’t say it was anything but a tragedy.

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          7 months ago

          There was no question, no doubt that atomic bombs would cause immense destruction.

          The triangle shirtwaist factory gave activists a rallying cry for protections, but the people in charge of that factory could have easily predicted that locking the doors to a factory could be dangerous.

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            Again- immense destruction is in no way the same as seeing the shadows on the wall, the severe burns, the radiation sickness, the birth defects, etc.

            What that they didn’t during see during the Trinity test was that it wasn’t just a great big powerful bomb. It was far worse than that.

            The only way anyone could have known exactly how horrific an atomic bomb is would have been to use it. Which was horrific, but because of it we didn’t have a much bigger war using such weapons as we very well could have done in 1962.

            The triangle shirtwaist factory gave activists a rallying cry for protections, but the people in charge of that factory could have easily predicted that locking the doors to a factory could be dangerous.

            Yes, that’s my entire point. It was a horrible tragedy, but because of it, other such tragedies got much less rare.

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              7 months ago

              Hell, just a normal bomb should not have been dropped on Japanese civilians. What you’re arguing only makes sense if you think that’s okay. Bye

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                7 months ago

                So you think I think the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was okay? The black death was okay?

                I really don’t know why you won’t admit that good things can come out of tragic things and just because that’s true, it doesn’t justify the tragedy. That’s just how the world works.

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                  That’s not what you’re arguing. It’s part of it, but you’re also saying that dropping the bomb was the only way we could have known it would be bad. Horrible take. Anyway, as I said, bye.

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                    7 months ago

                    I’m pretty sure I know what I was arguing better than you do.

                    Or do you think you know me better than I know myself?