Thread:Comments:Hiroshima marks 65th atomic bombing anniversary/forget manicheism

One shouldn't try to define whether Japan's population (or from any country) deserved an attack or were the so called "poor people". Declaring such statements would only reflect an ignorant point of view where complex situations are reduced to black or white problems, or the "bad guys" against the "good ones" which does nothing but remind us of a Disney's movie.

The truth is, just as the article reports it, that more than 140 000 civilians were killed using nuclear bombs that made no distinction between women, children, babies, doctors, workers, people that supported the Empire or those who were against it; sportsmen, gardeners, nothing. These people were killed within the span of an eyeblink and thousands that survived it suffered from the nightmare of radioactivity. The only thought of this happening 65 years ago makes me shiver and cry. I would say the same thing if such a disgrace had happen to Americans, Iraqis, Chinese, or people from no matter which country.

We are no one to decide the faith of an entire population even if the mastering of fundamental forces may give us the illusion that we are becoming God. Despite the great technology that requires the development of weapons of mass destruction, they approach us more to an ape than a civilized man. What a sad paradox.