I look forward to reading all your insights below!
Next week we'll work on sources and real evaluation, after I look through your active listening notes.
Happy writing!
Mike
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| Dan Carlin (born 1965) is an American political commentator and podcaster. Once a professional radio host, Carlin eventually took his show to the Internet, and he now hosts two popular independent podcasts: Common Sense, and Hardcore History. |
I think my biggest take away would be "with war comes insanity". I really like how the author compared war now to its roots. He gives examples going all the way back to mythological gods and how they would drive people mad, because no sane person could do what these people did. I also like how he said that if the bombers would have had to kill all those people by hand then the death toll would have been much lower. It really makes you think, does technological advances in warfare really just make killing more distant for the person killing?
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ReplyDeleteMy biggest takeaway from this podcast is his views about morality. He talks about how this affects war, and all that comes along with moral of civilians and the people fighting the war. It really controls everything, especially war and all that comes with war. It makes people choose between their survival and their morality which is mostly people's biggest desires and opinions. Morality becomes both a weakness and justifies for humanity.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest takeaway from listening to this podcast was the educational aspect about the fire raids. I never knew that the fire raids were actually worse than the atomic bombs themselves. And the fact that the fire raids were happening to multiple more cities than the 2 atomic bombs was crazy to hear. This definitely puts the war into a different perspective on how bad it really was. It also allows for a different opinion on if the dropping of the bombs was good or bad.
ReplyDeleteI think my biggest takeaway from this what the brutality of this war. People were so sick of it that they wanted it be over. They did not care that innocent people would be killed. I had never known much about fire raids and when I found out the amount of pain that they caused I couldn't believe that more people did not say anything.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest takeaway from listening to this podcast was how horrible it really was. They compared it to caterpillars being burned out of trees. I also thought it was horrible when they told the story that at 4:40 pm nuns rang a bell, a single plan then divided into the railroad station. They heard airplanes that then released a bomb throwing people and body parts into the air. I don't think I could ever imagine this site because it would be so horrible.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest takeaway from this podcast was really just coming to the realization of this event. First off, that if they didn't decide to drop the bombs, who knows how long the war would have lasted and how many more people would have been killed. Secondly, there was just a lot more information talked about that I hadn't even learned about in school, like the fire raids, who all supported the bomb and who did not, and information about Britain and the League of Nations.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest takeaway for me was that though the whole incident was tragic, it was completely necessary. There were other options, but most of them would lead down an even bloodier path. Looking at the history of the war and weighing the pros and cons and the numbers of deaths already, it made the most sense to end the war as soon as possible. It makes me so sad to read about the loss of life that came through the dropping of the bombs. However, so many more lives on both sides would have been lost if we would have allowed the war to continue. Necessary evil.
ReplyDeleteMy takeaway from the podcast was that the definition of a "war crime" has changed over time. World War II was the start of the normalization of war crimes through air warfare. A quote from the podcast that struck me was, "How do you weigh the lives of your own soldiers against the lives of the enemies' civilian population?". States consistently choose their own lives over the enemies, as anyone would, but because of this war has become increasingly devastating for those who are not involved. War crimes have become tied to the "humane" killing of people, with the definition of humane being changed over time as well.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest takeaway I had from this podcast was the shear scale of devastation WW1 and WW2 brought. I didn't know that the United States and Britain brought more destruction upon German cities than Germany did the opposing. It was eye opening to hear that the lungs of people gettting bombed were literally exploding and the planes were blocking the sky with the sheer amount of size and quantity.
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