[ SECRET POST #3147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3147 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I was waiting for somebody to bring it up. There are a lot of differences between the nukes and Aldaraan, though.

1. it was a state of all-out war (Aldaraan wasn't at war with anybody)
2. at least they pretended to be bombing military facilities, and there were actual military facilities
3. if you really think about it, not sure nukes are "worse" than the firebombing of Tokyo or the general city-flattening that was going on in Europe, on both sides.
4. at the time, they did not quite yet know how bad the fallout would be from it. if you want to talk about worse, consider that there were talks of nuking North Korea during the Korean war.
5. you're assuming the US is as "good" as the rebel alliance, which is isn't. in part because the US is a real country and the rebel alliance isn't, and the narrative makes them unequivocably good.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah those are fair points. But regardless of that, I do think it demonstrates that you can look at things that are prima facie awful and find justifications for them.

[(Anonymous)]

also forgot to mention that Japan was the supreme monarch of shittiness on the asian front, whereas no sign of Aldaraan doing any of that.

[(Anonymous)]

re: 5, I think it's more likely that they were assuming the US is as evil as the Empire.

Or at least that its populace is by and large willing to handwave away atrocities and continue to support the people who commit them.

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3) radiation

[(Anonymous)]

afaik they didn't know how bad the radiation fallout would be at the time, though.
even with radiation, though, the people who died in the fire bombing... absolutely horriffic.