I am living in perhaps one of the most fortunate generations thus far when it comes to information. With extensive documents, letters, recordings, and statistics from different eras in history accessible to the general public, we have the opportunity to inform ourselves of the consequences of past actions which we can use this insight by avoiding future failures and calamities in future decision making. Such events discussed in class includes the usage of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to conclude largest war known to mankind. Analyzing various resources from this event raises many issues regarding to the bombings and whether or not a different tactic should have been considered. I have the benefit of examining the effects of the
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It is safe to say that war is the disruption of peace that composes the deliberate destruction of human lives through means of violence. We have been taught the chaos that ensues from war and the change of government and society brought about it through textbooks and lessons in school and even now the United States is at war in the Middle East. We get the gist that it is bad, but it is necessary to defend one 's home and settle escalated disputes as seen in history, but requirements for a just war were established so that some moral standard could be kept and establishments were found Gena in 1929 in Geneva (BBC Ethics). Such a philosophy finds its origins in Christian teachings in St. Thomas Aquinas ' Summa Theologica. It lays out the conditions for a just war and reconciles the wrongs of war; for example, "True religion looks upon as peaceful those wars that are waged not for motives of aggrandizement, or cruelty, but with the object of securing peace, of punishing evil-doers, and of uplifting the good". This cause states that war is not meant to display cruelty but rather to ensure the safety of mankind and bring justice against the enemy at fault. Despite being through a religious point of view, St. Aquinas ' writings are universally accepted as the standards for an ethical …show more content…
The death toll as a result of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a city of 320,000, was estimated to be 70,000, casualties according to "The Decision to Drop the Bomb". On BBC 's information on ethics and war it states that in order to maintain a just war, "Innocent people and non-combatants should not be harmed". Evidently, the majority of the deaths were of civilian lives lost considering it was dropped in the center of a city. The Japanese living there were not soldiers; they were innocent people who were living in a war time. If they had willingly took arms to fight the war then it would have justifiable, but they were not noncombatants thus making this war
It is safe to say that war is the disruption of peace that composes the deliberate destruction of human lives through means of violence. We have been taught the chaos that ensues from war and the change of government and society brought about it through textbooks and lessons in school and even now the United States is at war in the Middle East. We get the gist that it is bad, but it is necessary to defend one 's home and settle escalated disputes as seen in history, but requirements for a just war were established so that some moral standard could be kept and establishments were found Gena in 1929 in Geneva (BBC Ethics). Such a philosophy finds its origins in Christian teachings in St. Thomas Aquinas ' Summa Theologica. It lays out the conditions for a just war and reconciles the wrongs of war; for example, "True religion looks upon as peaceful those wars that are waged not for motives of aggrandizement, or cruelty, but with the object of securing peace, of punishing evil-doers, and of uplifting the good". This cause states that war is not meant to display cruelty but rather to ensure the safety of mankind and bring justice against the enemy at fault. Despite being through a religious point of view, St. Aquinas ' writings are universally accepted as the standards for an ethical …show more content…
The death toll as a result of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a city of 320,000, was estimated to be 70,000, casualties according to "The Decision to Drop the Bomb". On BBC 's information on ethics and war it states that in order to maintain a just war, "Innocent people and non-combatants should not be harmed". Evidently, the majority of the deaths were of civilian lives lost considering it was dropped in the center of a city. The Japanese living there were not soldiers; they were innocent people who were living in a war time. If they had willingly took arms to fight the war then it would have justifiable, but they were not noncombatants thus making this war