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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 01:26 PM
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Proof that we rapidly learn to accept just about any horror:
Does anyone outside of Nagasaki set aside a day each year to remember the 2nd use of the atom bomb?
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 01:27 PM
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1. I believe the true crossing of the Moral Event Horizon was Nagasaki --- NOT Hiroshima. -nt
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 05:30 PM
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2. Yes. I do.
--d!
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guardian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 06:17 PM
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3. Don't know if "accept" is the right word?
Maybe numb is a better word...caused by the never ending litany of atrocities worldwide. Just take the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide It had a death toll about 4X that of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki death toll (maybe a million people?). Even fewer people talk about that.

East Timor. Cambodia. Darfur. Armenia. Bosnia. Nanking. Nazi Germany. Measured by death toll Hiroshima/Nagasaki don't even make the top ten list.


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