SIR -- In his letter headlined "Casualty rates and question of morals" D E Margrett condoned the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, killing can never be morally justified any more than a wrong could ever make a right. Furthermore, if killing can be morally justifiable, perhaps compulsory euthanasia for the old, disabled and sick people could be made justifiable, so the younger, healthy and able generation could have a better quality of life. Somehow, I don't think so.
There was no need for America to have dropped her atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because Japan's army was already in retreat.ttack at Pearl Harbour.
L SPITERI,
Worcester
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