**The following is simply an English lesson and no particular
viewpoint or stance is stated or implied. If you read that into it,
it is YOU adding it, not the OP.
**In regards to the morality of the bombing of Hiroshima and the
civilians killed there, much has been ballyhooed about how we had no
alternative.
**Many have trotted out the military/government line about how an
invasion of Japan would have cost even more lives, both Japanese and
American. They have also presented this argument as a fact and that
is where they are wrong according to the English language.
**That argument may be true but it also may be false. Why??? Because
it is not a FACT, it is an OPINION. Experience, background,
knowledge, etc., while helpful in forming an opinion, does NOTHING to
change it from an opinion to a fact. It remains only an opinion!
**Webster's dictionary makes the distinction quite clear.
OPINION = a belief or judgement based upon grounds insufficient to
produce complete certainty. A personal view, attitude or appraisal.
FACT= something that actually exists or has already happened.
**So if some persons have the OPINION that the horror unleashed upon
Hiroshima was wrong and that other solutions might have been
available, it absolutely does not matter whether or not others believe
those persons have sufficient training, background, experience or
whatever to have that opinion. It is still only an opinion and
individuals have a right to same.
**If some person have the OPINION that the horror unleashed upon
Hiroshima was necessary, and that other solutions might have resulted
in a greater loss of life, it absolutely does not matter whether or
not others believe they have sufficient training, background,
experience, whatever to have that opinion. And it shall forever
remain an opinion because the invasion of the Japanese homeland NEVER
HAPPENED so therefore it is not nor can it ever be construed as a fact
according to the English language. It is still only an opinion and
individuals have a right to same.
**That being the case, anyone with a sense of rational sequential
thought and a brain can see that we still, even today, DON'T REALLY
KNOW FOR CERTAIN, whether we needed to annihilate Hiroshima and all
those innocents or not. Now, THAT'S a fact (Why? Because we never
will know the answer since only one-half of the scenario occured
bombing of Hiroshima> while the other half did not
Japan>).
**See how easy things can be if you use your brain and not your
emotional gut to respond to everything. I realize that this very
clear and understandable lesson will be lost of the majority of the
brainless ones in RORT but hopefully not all.
-Jack B.
(Waiting for the non-readers to respond with emotional, chest-
thumping, irrational posts totally unrelated to the thread but only
using the thread as a soapbox for their misguided, unrrelated and
inapplicable responses and emotional outbursts.)
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