I've been spending mine at Buffalo Wild Wings.Dr. Medulla wrote: I don't mess with those who are obviously my moral superiors based on where they spend their Sundays.
Happy Hiroshima Day!
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My co-worker too.JennyB wrote:Hiroshima day is also my birthday. Do with that information what you will.
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You saying you're morally superior to wings?tepista wrote:I've been spending mine at Buffalo Wild Wings.Dr. Medulla wrote: I don't mess with those who are obviously my moral superiors based on where they spend their Sundays.
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Maybe because we can recognize a relative of the tu quoque fallacy.Silent Majority wrote:I love that nobody engaged with Steve's trolling.
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Those Albany Tame Wings are crap.Dr. Medulla wrote:You saying you're morally superior to wings?tepista wrote:I've been spending mine at Buffalo Wild Wings.Dr. Medulla wrote: I don't mess with those who are obviously my moral superiors based on where they spend their Sundays.
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I prefer Utica Whimsical Wings.tepista wrote:Those Albany Tame Wings are crap.Dr. Medulla wrote:You saying you're morally superior to wings?tepista wrote:I've been spending mine at Buffalo Wild Wings.Dr. Medulla wrote: I don't mess with those who are obviously my moral superiors based on where they spend their Sundays.
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Inder loves the McCartney Mediocre Wings.Wolter wrote:I prefer Utica Whimsical Wings.tepista wrote:Those Albany Tame Wings are crap.Dr. Medulla wrote:You saying you're morally superior to wings?tepista wrote:I've been spending mine at Buffalo Wild Wings.Dr. Medulla wrote: I don't mess with those who are obviously my moral superiors based on where they spend their Sundays.
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Twelve papers graded on the US decision to use nuclear weapons in Japan; only two saw a distinction between the military and civilian populations in Japan. Perhaps no surprise, too, that those two students engaged in a helluva lot more research for their papers (both cited close to three times the minimum required sources). Most of the pro-bomb papers dismissed the idea of morality in wartime (some explicitly said this), which means, I suppose, we can dispense with the idea of war crimes. Anything goes, except when it's the Germans or Japanese or Russians or Italians—then it's savagery. It really is quite depressing that very little reflection went into this topic.
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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?Dr. Medulla wrote:Twelve papers graded on the US decision to use nuclear weapons in Japan; only two saw a distinction between the military and civilian populations in Japan. Perhaps no surprise, too, that those two students engaged in a helluva lot more research for their papers (both cited close to three times the minimum required sources). Most of the pro-bomb papers dismissed the idea of morality in wartime (some explicitly said this), which means, I suppose, we can dispense with the idea of war crimes. Anything goes, except when it's the Germans or Japanese or Russians or Italians—then it's savagery. It really is quite depressing that very little reflection went into this topic.
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Not even when Henry Truman became president after Theodore Roosevelt died.Rat Patrol wrote:Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?Dr. Medulla wrote:Twelve papers graded on the US decision to use nuclear weapons in Japan; only two saw a distinction between the military and civilian populations in Japan. Perhaps no surprise, too, that those two students engaged in a helluva lot more research for their papers (both cited close to three times the minimum required sources). Most of the pro-bomb papers dismissed the idea of morality in wartime (some explicitly said this), which means, I suppose, we can dispense with the idea of war crimes. Anything goes, except when it's the Germans or Japanese or Russians or Italians—then it's savagery. It really is quite depressing that very little reflection went into this topic.
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One year later and another round of term papers have arrived on my desk. Fourteen of thirty-eight are on whether nuclear weapons were justified. I told the prof that I'm expecting to feel sad as I consider the moral core of twenty-somethings.
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Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Y'know, from 1945 and well into the 1960s, possibly 1970s, discussions about Hiroshima and the Holocaust usually occurred in tandem, realizing a shared mindset that justified the mass murder of civilians for a greater good and an application of advanced science and technology, previously regarded as the tools of social progress, to commit the deed. I'm not sure when the divorce happened, but while people still understand the Holocaust as a monstrous evil, somehow Hiroshima and Nagasaki have largely been removed from moral consideration. What's scarier to me is that my suspicion is that this isn't due to a reconsideration of the differences between the two acts than a simple Nazis were evil while the Allies were good guys. Which means that we could justify genocide as long as it's done by good guys. That's staring into the abyss territory.
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So how would you have ended the war, oh great source of wisdom and moral superiority?
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Re: Happy Hiroshima Day!
Medulla take your hippy "not nuking women and children" bullshit outta here.