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I don't completely disagree with what you are saying, but I thought your introduction of Star Wars into the conversation was interesting and wanted to explore it a bit. I appreciate your indulgence.
If there truly was no good reason to drop the A-bombs, then it is hard to say it is justified.
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As I said earlier, star wars is a movie where caricatures representing good go against caricatures representing evil in an epic battle accross the galaxy. I wasn't intending to introduce star wars into the conversation. Rather compare the narrative of the movie with the narratives of history that some in here are offering. Narratives I think are biased and not at all objective.
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If the Axis was evil then what were the Allies? What are those that fight against and fight to destroy evil?
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The Allies were evil too. Made up of colonial European powers who were also brutal in much of Africa and Asia as well as the United States which was all willing to defend that status quo.
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You can say storm troopers were agents of the Empire, whether they chose that role or not, but weren't the citizens of Japan agents of the Emperor in much the same way? They were born into their roles and not given a choice? Were they not fed the same sort of information, that their emperor was a deity, and should be followed to the death?
I understand we are comparing a movie to actual history, but you are saying one is justified and one is not, and on at least a surface level I am looking at why.
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The distinction is that the storm trooper is a soldier in the Imperial military. If you consider Japanese citizens as valid targets then by logic you must consider the people that died in the WTC towers valid too.