“Wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of goodness in the wrong way.”  -CS Lewis

 

Matt Yglesias:  Any means of forcing Japanese surrender would have killed incredible numbers of civilians, the guilty parties are the imperial officials who insisted on continuing a hopeless war.

 

Me:  And most importantly way more of our guys.

 

Marxist He/Hims: 

Nationalism is gross.

Beyond America's borders do not live a lesser people.

Actually soldiers of any sort dying is better than civilians of any sort dying.

 

“There is none of our impulses which the Moral Law may not sometimes tell us to suppress, and none which it may not sometimes tell us to encourage. It is a mistake to think that some of our impulses— say mother love or patriotism—are good, and others, like sex or the fighting instinct, are bad. All we mean is that the occasions on which the fighting instinct or the sexual desire need to be restrained are rather more frequent than those for restraining mother love or patriotism.”  -CS Lewis, Mere Christianity