Kai Bird and Gar Alperovitz, if memory serves, edited a huge anthology on
Hiroshima and the Enola Gay controversy at the Smithsonian Air & Space
Museum. Over a thousand pgs. Heavy enough to kill someone if dropped from 50
ft.
Michael Pugliese
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:56 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15963] Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Fw: The Fall of 'Challenge'?
>
>> > When Harry Truman ordered the Atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan,
>I don't
>> > think he "desired" that Japanese people die, but he knew as
>certain as the
>> > sun rises in the morning that people would die. In the historical
>court of
>> > moral inquiry, we can characterize Truman's conduct as anything
>from heroic
>> > to mass murder, but a determination that Truman did not commit
>mass murder
>> > cannot turn simply on whether or not Truman "desired" that anybody
>die as
>> > opposed to merely knowing that people would die -- his guilt or
>innocence is
>> > determined by the legitimacy of the justification for the act.
>Similarly,
>> > whether or not Stalin is guilty of the mass murder of Ukrainians
>cannot
>> > simply turn on whether he "desired" that people die, but whether:
>(1) he
>> > knew or should have known the consequences of his actions, and (2)
>there was
>> > no overriding justification for his actions.
>> >
>> > David Shemano
>=========
>For an excellent exploration of ethics dilemmas at the boundaries of
>professional roles or institutionally sanctioned offices, see "Ethics
>for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Public and Professional
>Life" by Arthur Applebaum. Legitimacy of justification sounds
>redundant and on the edge of a regress argument.
>
>Ian
>
