User blog comment:Dragonzzilla/Describe Your Mass Effect 3 Ending/@comment-737801-20120903233610/@comment-1978336-20120904024139

Dropping nukes on Japan was rather extreme, yes, but the nukes' alternative, an invasion of the Japanese mainland, would have likely resulted in even greater losses. The aftermath of the bombing was indeed horrific and is not something to ever be trivialized, but war is horrific by nature and the fact that such horrific things occurred during the course of the war, while not justified, should not be all that surprising. In the end, all things considered, the use of the atomic bombs worked out surprisingly well. It is redundant and wasteful to contemplate the morality of what we cannot change, especially when the results of those were favorable.