ok... arguing this on the internet is lame... i shouldn't've called you a fag, but i've been to hiroshima, and i've met people who are still suffering from the radiation... and i get overly angry when people are insensitive about it... anyway, enough said on this topic.

 

is it better to be insensitive about it or deny that it never happened?


japan is in denial.

US has paid japan back for hiroshima/nagasaki (sp?) by building it back up.

 

:eh:

 

alright, point taken, and no worries. i say things out of anger too.

so, i don't think that the 250,000 lives taken at hiroshima is any more or less sad than the millions of lives taken and effected by the japanese during WWII. i think the atomic bombs were definately and unquestionably justified. when i make statements like "here's to the atom bomb", i don't mean that the people that were killed and effected by them deserved it - if they did, then they wouldn't have been innocent people. but perhaps japan in general (the leaders, and army especially) at the time did deserve something for all the things that they did. like i said in my other posts, hardly anyone was ever prosecuted or punished, hardly anything was ever done. japan never had to repay the rest of the world like germany did. nazi's were hunted down - just a few MONTHS ago an ex-nazi was found hiding in argentina, and arrested. nothing like that was ever done to the japanese who committed crimes equally as disgusting and repulsive as the nazis. of course, innocent japanese people then and now should not be held accountable for everything that went on. should they have supported that kind of government? hell no. but did they know what was going on neccessarily? i just assume that they didn't - they were innocent people. but again, i feel i've made my point pretty clearly.

all of this stuff, and the japanese state's continuing actions and denial of events in WWII is where "here's to the atom bomb" comes from.