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"How can a human being with any claim to a sense of moral responsibility deliberately let loose an instrument of destruction which can at one stroke annihilate an appalling segment of mankind? This is not war: this is not even murder; this is pure nihilism. This is a crime against God and humanity which strikes at the very basis of moral existence. What meaning is there in any international law, in any rule of human conduct, in any concept of right and wrong, if the very foundations of morality are to be overthrown as the use of this instrument of total destruction threatens to do?"
Nippon Times (Tokyo), August 10, 1945
What does the author mean by saying that dropping a nuclear bomb "strikes at the very basis of moral existence?"
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I disagree with this statment because, the government has the responsibility to protect its own people. It is not their job to watch out for other countries, that's their government responsibility. His statment that "This a crime against God ..." is also incorrect because the Bible states the government has the right to capital punishment which is what this was.
ReplyDeleteThe authors mean by saying that dropping a nuclear bombs "strikes at the very basis of moral exitence" is that the human race moral of values is low with dropping a nuclear bomb.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you sadl I totally get what your saying
DeleteI strongly agree with SADV. Awesome points. Because we gave the country a forewarning. UNLIKE the privliedge(sp?) they granted us. They had the time to excavate their cities and give help to their civilians. Any loss is on their hands.
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this author is saying that the fact that someone can drop this weapon with no regard to thousands of lives is a monster at the pit of his or her soul and has no values but with the bible being involved i say that the government is there and is allowed to do what they want
ReplyDeletewhat i think the author of this artical means is that by droping a bomd that compleatly wipes you from the face of the earth is not something that you should be able to do. by the author saying that it "strikes at the very basis of moral exitence" he/she means that there are no moral values in doing that. somebody who can vaporize people dosent have any moral values for war.
ReplyDeletei do think that dropping a bomb was very wrong morally. i dont support it in any way, because to wipe out an entire country of civilians isn't right they weren't going to do anything to us
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What the author means is that the morals of people should not be thrown away to do something for their own selfishness and benefit. When the nuclear bomb was dropped, it was not because the Japanese tried to wipe out an entire group of people in the United States, but because of the fact that they wanted a place that they were at war with to test it and see how powerful the bomb really is. But to bomb a place that has people living there who didnt do anything at all defies the morals of people and the respect that they deserve. This is not just a crime to the author but it is a crime in the eyes of other people including me. To attack a city that was not prepared for an attack, or the bombers not caring is wrong on so many levels. Its a discrase to the people living in the country and the people who authorized it
ReplyDeleteThe author writes that dropping the atomic bomb on the japanese "strikes at the very basis of moral existence". He means not only is it wrong, but its morally wrong as human beings. There arent words to describe the destruction and terror it caused the japanese, and you shouldn't cause that on your own human race.
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