From: Jeff Shultz 

Except the decision to drop the nukes in '45 wasn't necessarily evil. It
was merely considered a necessary extension of the current "hit 'em
with everything we've got" warplan.

It worked too. If anything could be considered evil, it would have been the
going ahead with Operation Olympic instead of just sitting back and letting
the Navy starve them out.

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:04:44 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

adam{at}NOSPAMsoftfab.com> wrote in message
>news:3e115f90{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Were the people who ordered it evil?
>
>> Were the people who dropped it evil?
>
>Certainly the act of ordering or dropping a nuke is an evil act if it's
>being used to kill people. Labeling someone as evil is not quite the same
>thing as labeling an act. Pick someone you consider evil, have them commit
>one good act in order to promote more evil, are they now good?
>
>Geo.
>

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