Comments on: Hiroshima http://socci.com/blog/2009/10/18/hiroshima/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:45:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: csocci http://socci.com/blog/2009/10/18/hiroshima/comment-page-1/#comment-614 csocci Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:08:46 +0000 http://socci.com/blog/?p=468#comment-614 Yes, you are correct in stating Save American Lives - my problem is that is it ever ethical to sacrifice one innocent life for another? Regardless of the possibility that cancer rates have killed millions more people since the initial blast - is it every ok to sacrifice one innocent group of people to save another? My question might be different if they weapon had been used against a Japanese fleet somewhere as a demonstration of power. My problem is that they detonated the thing over a City of innocent people. Stated another way - suppose the United States came under the influence of a Hitler or Hirohito? Would it be OK for Canada to drop an atomic weapon on downtown Manhattan and instantly vaporize a million people - because it would stop the war? What if Canada showed us that within five year's time span an additional five million innocent people would die at the hands of the US. Would it still be OK to kill all those innocent people? Is it ever just to kill one innocent person to save 5? Is it ever ethical to kill anyone for any reason? Protecting the innocent and weak from the guilty and powerful are noble causes. Yes, you are correct in stating Save American Lives – my problem is that is it ever ethical to sacrifice one innocent life for another? Regardless of the possibility that cancer rates have killed millions more people since the initial blast – is it every ok to sacrifice one innocent group of people to save another?

My question might be different if they weapon had been used against a Japanese fleet somewhere as a demonstration of power. My problem is that they detonated the thing over a City of innocent people.

Stated another way – suppose the United States came under the influence of a Hitler or Hirohito? Would it be OK for Canada to drop an atomic weapon on downtown Manhattan and instantly vaporize a million people – because it would stop the war? What if Canada showed us that within five year’s time span an additional five million innocent people would die at the hands of the US. Would it still be OK to kill all those innocent people? Is it ever just to kill one innocent person to save 5?

Is it ever ethical to kill anyone for any reason? Protecting the innocent and weak from the guilty and powerful are noble causes.

]]> By: luis jimenez http://socci.com/blog/2009/10/18/hiroshima/comment-page-1/#comment-613 luis jimenez Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:43:26 +0000 http://socci.com/blog/?p=468#comment-613 i think they meant to "save america lives".... i think they meant to “save america lives”….

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