Hey Conlon, nice post! I believe targeting civilians is unacceptable at war because it is not their fault that their country is at war. However, the only time it would be acceptable would be when a civilian starts to target one of our soldiers. When we go to war we want to make peace with these civilians and not hurt them as much as possible. However, when Japan attacked us at pearl harbor, we had to show them that we could still fight back! This is why I believe the bombing was alright for us to send out. However, when I saw the fact you mentioned of somewhere around "225,000 Japanese civilians" had lost their lives, I began to think maybe there could have been a different way. We had to do something though because the Japanese were not surrendering
