The two options for the United States to win the war were to continue the naval blockade and invade the mainland, or to drop the new, highly destructive atomic bombs. ... Japan was struck hard by the war, which pushed the nation to the verge of collapse even without the bombs. ... Without the use of the atomic bomb, who knows how long the Pacific War would have continued, bringing a large death toll with it. ... There is still the fact that Japan brought the U.S. into the Pacific War and WWII by using unnecessary hostile force on the American homeland. ... This correlates to the fact that ever...

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Furthermore, philosophers such as Socrates and Vonnegut have stressed that responsibility for one's actions is the first step toward understanding why things are the way they are (i.e. war, hunger, injustice, etc.) ... In the turbulent polytheistic society of Athens, no one action could please all of the gods, but more importantly, Socrates would advocate that it is ludicrous to act in a mechanical way merely to please beings which are at constant war with each other. ... He also recognizes the irony and hypocrisy of dissenters of slavery and the Mexican War being called unpatriotic an...

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The emotions kept rising between the Pequots and the Puritans, and on May 26, 1637, the English decided that it was time to end their war with the Pequots, and attacked their village at Mystic. ... In May 1830, nearly two hundred years after the war with the Pequots, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which forced the tribes into territory west of the Mississippi. ...

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