This is what humans can do to one another
Aug. 6th, 2005 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamJapan marks anniversary
It is now sixty years since the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and over 100.000 people lost their lives in a flash. (Over 140.000 dead in the end.)
There have been many debates over whether or not it was necessary, whether or not it was justified, who had the blame, who was bad, who was good, who was neither. It is perhaps an important debate - but today, go beyond it.
History teaches its lessons in blood. This is what humans can do to one another, whether 'necessary' or not. In the end, the suffering is the same and the dead remain dead. And always, the innocent do suffer when leaders declare war upon each other.
This is what humans can use science for. Death in a metal container, a giant leap forward in how to effectively kill as many as possible at once. The leaps continue. Nuclear weapons remain in high numbers around the world. Don't forget what we are capable of. Never forget.
This is what war brings. Black rain and burned flesh. A bomb knows no conscience, cannot tell a soldier from a child. It kills, as we have made it to kill so very easily. War is not glorious. Victory might be, but war is not. War is death, suffering and the frailty of life against metal, flames and ever more efficient engines. War is this, is Hiroshima, is thousands of screams as a city is flattened.
Remember, or the lesson will be repeated and someone might find it necessary to drop another bomb on another city to end another war - and for all our progress, we will have gotten nowhere at all.
Can we afford to learn this lesson too many times?
Don't forget. Remember. This is what humans can do to another.
It is now sixty years since the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and over 100.000 people lost their lives in a flash. (Over 140.000 dead in the end.)
There have been many debates over whether or not it was necessary, whether or not it was justified, who had the blame, who was bad, who was good, who was neither. It is perhaps an important debate - but today, go beyond it.
History teaches its lessons in blood. This is what humans can do to one another, whether 'necessary' or not. In the end, the suffering is the same and the dead remain dead. And always, the innocent do suffer when leaders declare war upon each other.
This is what humans can use science for. Death in a metal container, a giant leap forward in how to effectively kill as many as possible at once. The leaps continue. Nuclear weapons remain in high numbers around the world. Don't forget what we are capable of. Never forget.
This is what war brings. Black rain and burned flesh. A bomb knows no conscience, cannot tell a soldier from a child. It kills, as we have made it to kill so very easily. War is not glorious. Victory might be, but war is not. War is death, suffering and the frailty of life against metal, flames and ever more efficient engines. War is this, is Hiroshima, is thousands of screams as a city is flattened.
Remember, or the lesson will be repeated and someone might find it necessary to drop another bomb on another city to end another war - and for all our progress, we will have gotten nowhere at all.
Can we afford to learn this lesson too many times?
Don't forget. Remember. This is what humans can do to another.
