Darth Vader debuted a super laser blowing up Alderaan to strike fear in the rebel alliance. That is fiction and used to mark how villaineous the galactic empire is.
In reality there has been essentially 1 deployment of weapons of mass destruction against civilian targets in order to strike fear for geopolitical reasons. The deployer has not suffered signficant reputational harm and has not made an apology.
The connection here is that is not the most surprising angle (at least for me). It strikes like complaining about pickpocketing going on during a bank robbery.
I will discuss the actual events in the linked place.
The example on what makes the firebombing framing more concrete might not be the most illuminating. If I want to highlight an asepct of reality I could emphasises the HIGHLIGHT or the REALITY (facts). Writing purely the facts is likely to get the highlight very muddled or leave the highlighting to the reader.
I guess I got a alternative formulation of “USA did a nuclear terror attack and got away with it”. Having isolated facts without context seems like a kind of distortion. This setup is also supposed to make a reader go “that is not what terrorism looks like” but then fullfill all the concept delineations
Assuming you’re talking about the atomic bombing of Japan, there is plenty of debate on the subject. The main argument in favor is that, if the nukes weren’t an option to force the Japanese government to surrender, then instead the Allies would have invaded Japan with conventional forces, with casualty estimates on the order of 1 million lives, as opposed to the ~180k killed by the nukes.
I would be pretty surprised if somebody would start to argue that Vader was being reasonable and had a forced hand to sacrifice Alderaan instead of doing violent police forcing all around the galaxy.
I guess the upshot of centering around reality is that there is guaranteed to be depth and nuance while fiction can be cartoonish.
Darth Vader debuted a super laser blowing up Alderaan to strike fear in the rebel alliance. That is fiction and used to mark how villaineous the galactic empire is.
In reality there has been essentially 1 deployment of weapons of mass destruction against civilian targets in order to strike fear for geopolitical reasons. The deployer has not suffered signficant reputational harm and has not made an apology.
I’m not sure what superweapons have to do with this post. Did you mean to comment here instead?
The connection here is that is not the most surprising angle (at least for me). It strikes like complaining about pickpocketing going on during a bank robbery.
I will discuss the actual events in the linked place.
The example on what makes the firebombing framing more concrete might not be the most illuminating. If I want to highlight an asepct of reality I could emphasises the HIGHLIGHT or the REALITY (facts). Writing purely the facts is likely to get the highlight very muddled or leave the highlighting to the reader.
I guess I got a alternative formulation of “USA did a nuclear terror attack and got away with it”. Having isolated facts without context seems like a kind of distortion. This setup is also supposed to make a reader go “that is not what terrorism looks like” but then fullfill all the concept delineations
Assuming you’re talking about the atomic bombing of Japan, there is plenty of debate on the subject. The main argument in favor is that, if the nukes weren’t an option to force the Japanese government to surrender, then instead the Allies would have invaded Japan with conventional forces, with casualty estimates on the order of 1 million lives, as opposed to the ~180k killed by the nukes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
I would be pretty surprised if somebody would start to argue that Vader was being reasonable and had a forced hand to sacrifice Alderaan instead of doing violent police forcing all around the galaxy.
I guess the upshot of centering around reality is that there is guaranteed to be depth and nuance while fiction can be cartoonish.