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Originally Posted by MMM
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?
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I've re-edited my post to show you why. Records show that there was no need for the dropping of the a-bombs. They knew that then as they knew now so this context of the time argument is bull.
I didn't understand your point in number 2. I have no problem classing the Axis as "evil". The problem I have is the idea that the allies were somwhow "good". But more importantly I find both designations irrelevant.
As for point 3. The storm troopers were agents of the Empire. Whether they had a choice in their employment is debatable too. Also the Death star was a military installation. It's destruction would be comparable to the sikning of the Yamato perhaps rather than the firebombing or nuking of a city.