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wredcollyesterday at 10:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Sure, and I dunno, it probably does no one any good, I just find it mildly annoying when people treat the atomic bombs dropped in ww2 as some kind of completely incomparable atrocity.

Like the beatles joke, "were the atomic bombs the worst atrocity of all time? They weren't even the worst of that war!"

I mean, we don't really need to rank awful things, we can acknowledge anything beyond a certain level is awful without comparing them, but lots of awful things happen without involving nukes.


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perpetuallunchyesterday at 11:39 PM

They were certainly a novel way of causing a reasonable amount of death and destruction.

Fortunately the novelty wore off fair swiftly.

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