No, You Can’t Be a Friend of Liberty and Support the Atomic Bombings
"I’ve been surprised a few times in the past week as I have seen many libertarians claiming that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified. Of course, they can use the word libertarian all they wish, but the fact is that they are not friends of private property rights.
You cannot be in favor of the mass killing of innocent people and then claim to be on the side of the private property ethic without being caught up in a contradiction.
The first rebuttal to that, typically, is that they, the Japanese, weren’t innocent. Here are two problems with this rebuttal..."