“The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional' bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb.” MoralityKillingWorld War IiCiviliansBombingNuclear BombCivilian Casualties Book:Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century Source: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
“Those who actually dropped the bombs were less responsible than the people who took the decisions higher up the chain of command. In modern technological war, psychological responses are poorly correlated with degrees of responsibility. In people further back up the chain, this casual distance reduces the psychological resistance they have to overcome.” WarMoralityKillingBombing Author:Jonathan Glover