Is it ever justified to use a weapon off mass destruction?
A weapon of mass destruction is never justified. One could say that If a weapon of mass destruction is used to kill innocent people, it is not justified. That seems simple enough, but the real question is, what makes someone innocent? Many of the Nazi soldiers were just kids who were sent out to fight. They were people, who were taught that we were the bad guys. They didn’t all know what they were fighting for, and of those who did, many didn’t agree with it; but they had no choice, and neither did we. But we had no trouble killing them, and they had no trouble killing us. Surely, killing them with a big bomb isn’t any worse than with little bullets, one at a time, but then again, they could say the same of us. What I’m getting at here, is that innocence doesn’t really exist. It’s arbitrary, an invention designed to keep people civil. When you give two people thousands of bombs that could make the world burn, it doesn’t make sense to have your basis of when to use it on something arbitrary and subjective.
"US CODE: Chapter 113B—Terrorism". .law.cornell.edu. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
"The Atomic Bombing, The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the Shimoda Case: Lessons for Anti-Nuclear Legal Movements by Yuki Tanaka and Richard Falk". Wagingpeace.org. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
A weapon of mass destruction is never justified. One could say that If a weapon of mass destruction is used to kill innocent people, it is not justified. That seems simple enough, but the real question is, what makes someone innocent? Many of the Nazi soldiers were just kids who were sent out to fight. They were people, who were taught that we were the bad guys. They didn’t all know what they were fighting for, and of those who did, many didn’t agree with it; but they had no choice, and neither did we. But we had no trouble killing them, and they had no trouble killing us. Surely, killing them with a big bomb isn’t any worse than with little bullets, one at a time, but then again, they could say the same of us. What I’m getting at here, is that innocence doesn’t really exist. It’s arbitrary, an invention designed to keep people civil. When you give two people thousands of bombs that could make the world burn, it doesn’t make sense to have your basis of when to use it on something arbitrary and subjective.
"US CODE: Chapter 113B—Terrorism". .law.cornell.edu. 28 June 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
"The Atomic Bombing, The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the Shimoda Case: Lessons for Anti-Nuclear Legal Movements by Yuki Tanaka and Richard Falk". Wagingpeace.org. Retrieved 2012-05-02.