Edward Feser, an extremely intelligent Catholic philosopher, brings up the nuking of the two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which prompted the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Empire.
He says it was immoral, justified only by the erroneous "ends justify the means" argument, or consequentialism. He forces me to think and clarify my thinking. But I have to disagree.
I wish, though, we hadn't bombed Nagasaki, a city containing 60,000 Catholics, esp. so soon (three days) after Hiroshima. It should have happened a couple of weeks later.
The lively commentators are interesting, too.
He says it was immoral, justified only by the erroneous "ends justify the means" argument, or consequentialism. He forces me to think and clarify my thinking. But I have to disagree.
I wish, though, we hadn't bombed Nagasaki, a city containing 60,000 Catholics, esp. so soon (three days) after Hiroshima. It should have happened a couple of weeks later.
The lively commentators are interesting, too.
But Catholics have more than once embraced consequentialism, whether it's Danielle Bean defending a sanctioned order, easy annulments for the rich and powerful, or the Church's ongoing proclamation of the divine creation of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which seems increasingly difficult to justify.
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