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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
1- This is not a similar situation to America using the A-bomb. I've pretty much spent the entire thread explaining why it was unjustified.
2- You're overthinking Star wars. I said I refuse to go along with a Star wars narrative of history where one side is caricaturized as good and the other evil.
3- I would still say that the destruction of the death star was justified.
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1. Why not? If you don't want to play ball, I can't make you. I would say, however, it is very easy in 2011 to look back 60+ years and judge how decisions were made. I would ask you to look at it in the context of the time.
2. Again, think about it in the context of the time. You can decide that neither side was right or wrong or good or evil, but that's not the narrative of the time. Was Japan, Germany and Italy seen simply as other countries, or as evil by the Allied countries? It seems like you are are saying if the other side is evil, then it is justified, but it isn't fair to consider the Axis forces as evil. However, I am sure you know how they were viewed: as evil.
3. Why?