Dojan comments on When None Dare Urge Restraint - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dojan 17 October 2011 02:12:49AM *  2 points [-]

If Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not have that effect...

As a non-US citizen, I estimate that the net effect for the US is quite negative, even internally as you put it, for the reason of other people and nations seeing the US in a negative light. Most of US commerce is international after all.

Also I don't see how the viewpoint of ignoring-the-humanitarian-and-welfare-cost-of-everyone-not-in-the-US is in any way an interesting one; Either people suffer and die, or they don't, their physical location and country of birth don't really change anything.

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