Dresden wasn't a judicial punishment, it was an act of war intended to disrupt the German war machine and break the morale of the populace in order to hasten surrender On those utilitarian grounds, it was justified
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndrewJensen2 and
Slaughtering Jews, in Hitler's view, was necessary to winning the war. I think that view was wrong for the same reason I think slaughtering German civilians was wrong. Civilians are not legitimate military targets in themselves.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @arthur_affect and
Buddy, you can debate about the humanity or effectiveness of firebombing industrial centers, you can argue if it's feasible to spare civilians when a nation is in state of total war but, they aimed at neutralizing German ability to continue the war, Hitler wanted extermination.
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Replying to @Dominic11B4 @jlippincott_ and
Yeah unless someone argues that it would be a positive good to render a region Deutschenfrei for its own sake this is an absurd false equivalence, and a deeply odious one Dresden is not the fucking "German Holocaust" and saying it is verges on Holocaust denial
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndrewJensen2 and
That's a non sequitor. Acknowledging that one mass killing of civilians is bad does not mean I deny that a different mass killing of civilians occurred. That makes zero sense.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @AndrewJensen2 and
The Holocaust was deliberate, systematic genocide, and the firebombing of Dresden was not How is this even in question
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndrewJensen2 and
It doesn't matter if killing civilians is "systematic" or "genocidal" you're still killing civilians! That's my whole argument. Would you have approved of systematically murdering German workers if it would have brought the war to an end?
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @arthur_affect and
And if you would approve of such actions, how does that make you any different than the evil you claim to oppose?
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Replying to @amanofnoaccount @jlippincott_ and
You've levered yourself straight out of the real world, into a position of unsullied unreality where you're incapable of addressing the actual moral issues of war.
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Replying to @potaterator @jlippincott_ and
"I do nothing and allow genocide to continue because stopping it is as bad as doing it myself. I am so good."
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Honestly he won't admit it but it's obvious that he actually does see fascism as a lesser evil to communism, he's much more viscerally offended by Stalin's regime than Hitler, he's extremely willing to draw equivalences between the Holocaust and any other atrocity
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