The Importance of Respecting Human Life in a War

One in five Americans wished that more atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan before they surrendered, according to a poll taken two months after the war ended. But we shouldn't retributively punish civilians for something that happened in a war and this debate isn't about something that just happened 80 years ago. We have to be careful about allowing war to destroy what is good in us and turning a desire for justice into a lust for vengeance. As I said before, war is hell. It's not glamorous, it's not cool. And we should never choose to intentionally inflict those horrors on innocent people who never signed up to face them in the first place.