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The claim was that “the bomb probably saved more lives than it killed”. Not that it was necessary to make the Japanese surrender. Mutually assured destruction via nuclear warheads is what kept the Cold War cold. Who knows how many people would have died all over the world if the USSR and the USA went into direct armed conflict?

Maybe it’d have been less than the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, though I doubt it. My point is that there’s no way of knowing.

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This is what propaganda does to s person. U go on forget about the innocent people who were killed needlessly. ONLY imagine how much worse it could be

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You’re arguing in bad faith. My entire argument is about the proportion between the people who did die and the people who could have died, so how can anyone make that argument while forgetting one of the two groups and focusing only on the other? A proportion implies both groups.

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No. You’re a propaganda mouth piece now without knowing it.

You don’t have another group to compare, you are NOT making a comparison. You are speaking only in hypotheticals, NOT comparison at all.

You are not talking about two groups that died. You are talking about a group that was killed, by the USA. You are talking about ONE group.

You are arguing in bad faith, without knowing it.

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This is what I mean

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