Cerberus.Liandaru said:
Asura.Silvaria said:
Wow, jumping in here really late, but...are there seriously people who are saying Japan got what it deserved because it's not a Christian nation?? I mean, SERIOUSLY??? *Headdesks repeatedly*
Yeah, that and Pearl Harbor. Refer to
this thread on what that got someone:
Friend of mine on FB posted this, and I wanted to share. Not sure of the original source..
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So for fun I ran some simple numbers. At Pearl Harbor in 1942, there where 2,402 deaths as the result of Japanese bombings. After that, America engaged strategic bombings of various Japanese cities. 6 months before the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the military switched to firebombing resulting in catastrophic damage of of 67 Japanese cities. There where, at minimum, 330,000 recorded Japanese deaths. After the atomic bombings, at least 150,000 people where killed in the first four months following, and two cities decimated. That's a total of 480,000 people killed in the three year wake of Pearl Harbor. If you're one of thous hostile eye for an eye people, this means that (at least) 199.83 Japanese people died per every American that died at Pearl Harbor. Many of whom, suffered in agony for months before they passed.
Their government, and the Axis of Evil struck America a devastating blow, and we retaliated in kind, 200%. Yes, karma is a ***, and we've all pay in various ways for what we do. The events occurring in Japan now aren't the result of past or future actions. They aren't something that could have been stopped by a vote, or by people in suits sitting in fancy buildings. They are unfortunate events, that have befallen people with no control over them who need help. Just like Haiti, these people are losing family members to something they could not prepare for, even in the back of your minds, as might happen during war. Unlike Haiti, the Japanese government is well funded, and has on sight man power to control the damage and help their civilians. But they are still human all human beings. So be mindful of that before you go spewing hate speech about Karma, a philosophy that isn't even being used correctly in this context, and telling people that they deserve it. Cause nobody deserves to know that a love one has drowned, or been crushed under rubble. Thank you for reading.
TL;DR: 480,000(minimum number of people who died in Japan during WWII) divided by 2,402(the number of people killed at Pearl Harbor) equals 199.83 the number of people who died in response for every person who died at Pearl Harbor.
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