I think perhaps I can see Hiroshima and Nagasaki being justified as worse than Hitler... Perhaps... Perhaps, in fighting evil, we had lost a bit of ourselves in the process?
Yes, the Holocaust was horrid, but the slaughter was spread out over years.
This was lives being taken in the blink of an eye. Before they could even react.
This was *America* with the blood of innocents on its hands, not Hitler. Perhaps that is why it's tragic.
DISCLAIMER: These are not necessarily Illumina's opinions. Illumina is just trying to see it from a different point of view.
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