User blog comment:Supergodzilla118/Justification of the Genophage/@comment-733050-20140808090249/@comment-11209678-20140808190715

When most people see the projected casualty numbers for an invasion of Japan on both sides, they come to the conclusion that it was the best way to end the war at the time. Every Japanese man, woman, and child had been brainwashed in a way that would have led to civilians fighting and carrying out suicide attacks on soldiers. While killing over a hundred thousand was bad, an invasion of Japan would have cost over a million lives and injured and/or maimed millions more. While it is terrible that a hundred thousand Japanese civilians died, I would recommend that you look at the way Japan basically slaughtered millions Chinese civilians, treated POWs barbarically, and basically ignored every international war law ever written.