Does anyone really know what is right and what is wrong? Everyone thinks they do know, but really no one knows what is right and what is wrong. No? Let’s say an insecure teen is struggling to ‘fit in’, and he/she meets two friends; one is popular, but a drug addict, and the other is quiet and despised for his/her intelligence (the two candidates loathe each other, so the struggling teen has to decide on which friend to choose). Now being an insecure teen, he/she will choose the more popular one because he/she believes that the drug addict will lead him/her to popularity, but this addict will likely force his/her new friend to intoxicate him/herself with illegal narcotics. This teen is considering the short term effects; popularity, parties
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The point is that there is no way of knowing what is right and what is wrong because each decision in life has benefits and has consequences. Even horrendous actions, such as dropping the atomic bomb on Japan have benefits and consequences as well. For years, there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not America’s action of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was justified. For those who do not know the atomic bomb is a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity (dictionary.reference.com). It has enough power to cause burns from five kilometers away, and 1 bomb with a yield of 1 megaton would destroy 80 square miles. While 8 bombs, each with a yield of 125 kilotons, would destroy 160 square miles (atomicarchive.com). Now, while there is an inexplicable amount of evidence stating that America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb was an unjustifiable act, the reality of the matter is that this act was …show more content…
Primarily, the use of the atomic bomb replaced thousands of U.S. bombing missions that would have been required to achieve the same effect of the two atomic bombs. And what (?) is a question one may ask. Instead of spending an incredulous amount of money on the thousands of bombers, an incredulous amount of money, 1.888 billion dollars, was spent on developing the atomic bomb. Now, think about. If thousands of bombers were chosen as opposed to the atomic bomb, not all of the bombers would have been successful. Also, out of the possible thousand bombers, maybe a couple hundred would have been successful, enraging Japan, in turn triggering an aerial combat. Now, the death toll would have exceeded 135,000, endangering American citizens because just as the American would conclude their bombing on Japan, Japan would have started bombing America. The war would have taken much longer to conclude, increasing the damage and death toll. Additionally, even though the bomb cost 1,889, 604, 000 billion dollars to produce, it is a miniscule number when compared with the cost of damage that would have been done, with an aerial combat. It is estimated that the total cost of this would have been around an astonishing four billion dollars (japanandushistory.com) instead of
The point is that there is no way of knowing what is right and what is wrong because each decision in life has benefits and has consequences. Even horrendous actions, such as dropping the atomic bomb on Japan have benefits and consequences as well. For years, there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not America’s action of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was justified. For those who do not know the atomic bomb is a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity (dictionary.reference.com). It has enough power to cause burns from five kilometers away, and 1 bomb with a yield of 1 megaton would destroy 80 square miles. While 8 bombs, each with a yield of 125 kilotons, would destroy 160 square miles (atomicarchive.com). Now, while there is an inexplicable amount of evidence stating that America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb was an unjustifiable act, the reality of the matter is that this act was …show more content…
Primarily, the use of the atomic bomb replaced thousands of U.S. bombing missions that would have been required to achieve the same effect of the two atomic bombs. And what (?) is a question one may ask. Instead of spending an incredulous amount of money on the thousands of bombers, an incredulous amount of money, 1.888 billion dollars, was spent on developing the atomic bomb. Now, think about. If thousands of bombers were chosen as opposed to the atomic bomb, not all of the bombers would have been successful. Also, out of the possible thousand bombers, maybe a couple hundred would have been successful, enraging Japan, in turn triggering an aerial combat. Now, the death toll would have exceeded 135,000, endangering American citizens because just as the American would conclude their bombing on Japan, Japan would have started bombing America. The war would have taken much longer to conclude, increasing the damage and death toll. Additionally, even though the bomb cost 1,889, 604, 000 billion dollars to produce, it is a miniscule number when compared with the cost of damage that would have been done, with an aerial combat. It is estimated that the total cost of this would have been around an astonishing four billion dollars (japanandushistory.com) instead of