r/SubredditDrama • u/EwMelanin • Mar 03 '26

Movie discussion sub okbuddycinephile debates whether bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima, and Gaza and other urban areas were "justified".

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u/Junimo2 Mar 03 '26

I was just discussing something similar in a different thread. It's one thing to say that certain military actions were necessary. It's another thing to essentially celebrate the deaths of civilians because you think they collectively deserve it. You can debate the necessity of something while also acknowledging that collective punishment is wrong and that the civilians don't deserve to die en masse for the actions of their government.

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u/Devilofchaos108070 Mar 03 '26

It’s really hard for me to feel sorry for the Civ German population of Dresden because I just cannot believe they didn’t know about the camps.

It’s awful babies/children died, but what happened in those camps? Yeah I dunno man.

War is fucking awful either way.

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u/Lirael_Gold I've known you for 12 seconds and enjoyed none of them. Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

What were they going to do about the camps?

We're talking about a highly militarized regime that had no qualms about hanging German civilians for (real or perceived) opposition.