A Story, A Hypothetical, And A Question:

[Kaj]

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Well at least one prominent member of this forum said he'd rather kill every single Japanese man, woman, and child than accept a conditional surrender by the Japanese.

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Even that extreme statement does not imply that he thinks all Japanese people are "guilty", but rather that unconditional surrender is a very important goal.

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Fine. So is your position that it is justified to kill millions of innocents for our government to save face?

(By the way, did you know that the final surrender conditions were essentially quite the same as what many leaders felt were possible before the bombs? It wasn't totally unconditional in the end anyway.)